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

Only after spending some bucks on Wadia 781i and Naim CDS3 and tons of efforts/$$ hunting down boxes of  Japanese mini-LP CDs.  Lesson learned the hard way, but I soo hated warped LPs that just refused to hear the obvious!...

@danvignau that would be me also, I like cassette sound recorded on Nakamichi LX3 off Sony D-7 Discman when listening through the same hp amp and HD600 to the "master" CD. Extra wow and flutter must have painted over digital deficiencies and I find them more "natural" sounding. Mike Fremer said something similar in one of his YouTube blogs, that he prefers analog distortions 

It is amazing how none of the responders have their systems posted here at a-gon. I feel like Steve of South Park who gravitates to the site in order to learn something but then goes away empty-handed. 
It takes one iPhone and 5min to update your profile, I know this because I did that! 
reading these comments that vinyl beats or gets beaten by digital is like shopping for new music on Amazon: a few posts say that I MUST get the latest from Marillion or Beyonce but "who is talking?!" This gets me to my next question: do you prefer vinyl while listening to AC/DC, Manovar, Tool, Beatles, Jane Monheit, Zappa?  
My point is: with Imagine Dragons I just do not care because CD is more convenient to play: albums are so overcompressed that I almost hate the music. Ion USB TT will never make me dump my CD player and spend extra on LPs. on the other hand, listening to Kind of Blue thru my Keel-ed/Naim-ed Sondek is an experience I do not get from HiRez or SACD. Once I get dCS stack I will learn more, but for now LPs beat my digital front-end...

Correction: Stan, not Steve, I am getting old!! @whart I did not check All the responders, only hardliners and those who find digital more pleasing to their ears. If Rega P1 beats Linn Akurate is one thing, if Esoteric beats VPI is totally different story. Overcompressed crap sold as "progressive" nowadays (sorry, Steven Wilson is just a lucky exception) sounds crappy no matter what. Van Der Graaf Generator "Live" from the olden times sounds as horrible thru LP as CD. Symphonic Dances on RR sounds totally Awesome on HDCD, but makes me jump when I am not too lazy to warm up my Armageddon.. All things being equal, vinyl always wins to my ears, but the convenience of Hi-Rez or CDs rule! 

@ptss so true!! I had to return Linn Akurate player because its digital power supply totally f$&@-ed up the rest of my system!  

@toolbox149 to paraphrase our beloved President: convenience, convenience, convenience!  In early 90-ies I remember asking my friends why would they buy cassettes if for the same $$ they could get CD or LP and make a better cassette copy at home. They all had cassette decks. The answer was the same as today: convenience. As is today, not many of them listened to music other than "background"   This, and constant search for New music gets us all these sad numbers.