When and how did you, if at all, realize vinyl is better?

Very romantic idea, but dragging a rock across bumpy plastic is not ideal to say the least.  Recently went to a HiRez Vault DAC streaming source hooked into my Vanguard Digital via MIT Magnum Coax....extremely dynamic, holographic rounded 3D soundstage, airy and human sounding!  Warm and liquid with zero noise.  Technology is finally surpassing the antique tech of yesteryear:)

I would have agreed with team vinyl until I heard my CD's ripped and sent to the HiRez DAC's on my Krell.  Seems that CD players are flawed in some fundamental way because what Im hearing is so much better than any one of previous $12 to $16k rigs!

Last rig I had was a Micro Seiki BL-51 wt Dynavector Rubycartridge!  I did appreciate it very much.  Of course vinyl can sound really good, but the artifacts distract me from suspending belief that I am experiencing the event as it originally sounded.  What I have now does it for me...has the positive attributes of vinyl without the drawbacks.

If they put caffeine in the vinyl I might come back to the fold:)