Mine was the same as Map's except I was already using a Benchmark DAC. FLAC-to-JRiver-to-USB-to-Benchmark was vastly superior to CD-to-Wadia-to-Coax-to-Benchmark.
Your "eureka" digital moment
I got into digital in 86 or 87. Very conveniant but I never gave up on vinyl. Digital was ok but something did not "make sense" musically. Until 2001 when I bought a second hand meridian 508.24. Then digital made sense. No, not a perfect player (dynamics were polite) but oh what a listenable player. That was when I finally got digital.