I recommend if your happy with digital don’t listen to vinyl or tape. Hearing vinyl on occasion probably won’t sway you. But if you spend much time with it your brain gets used to the natural sound and you will then be less likely to be satisfied with digital. Then you’ll always be trying to get your digital to sound like vinyl. Vinyl listeners don’t seem to be wanting their systems to sound like digital. I find your brain can adapt and get used to digital if It wants to and even find it enjoyable. This is just my opinion from my own personal experience of 30 years since my first high end Esoteric CD transport and DAC from 1990. I haven’t owned a digital source in 6-7 years now.
is the sound of vinyl due to the physical process of the turntable?
Same here. I do not own a turntable, however, if the sound of vinyl comes from the physical act of the record on the turntable why can't I transfer digital audio or at least emulate that process to digitally recreate that sound? I remember back in the 1970's you had 45rpm records on the back of cereal boxes and they were not vinyl, however they sounded good why can't I do that myself?