WAY back when I plugged my very first Tube component(Yaqin Buffer w/Mullard 6922)in between my CDP & SS Integrated amp.All of the sudden digital had everything vinyl did with none of the bad.
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.