Vinyl sounds so much better/live. Stay with analog. Use tube equipment.
If you don't want to use vinyl try a tube CD player.
OTOH, solid state has come a long way in the last 30 years.
Could be. A good friend of mine told me that if the doctor ever gave him one day to live, he'd go to a girls JV basketball game. They seem to take forever.
"Back when I was pillaging for a living, we were done by 2 o'clock and always took Friday off. Now, we've got to go in on Saturday because the sewage plant is over budget."