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

Dean de Thazel, The same happened here too, suddenly new vinyl records disappeared ! I should had bought as many as possible because the prices had already been getting lower and lower all the time. Hundreds, even many sealed original albums from the 70´s for ridiculous prices. I just couldn´t see what was happening... A very big mistake in my audio career.

For whatever reasons CDs never fulfilled their promise of huge dynamic range - in the way they sounded - even before the industry decided to aggressively compress dynamic range what, 20 years ago. You know the line, 90 dB SNR and 90 dB Dynamic Range. That’s 100 times higher than analog systems. Hel-loo! Yet vinyl - when not compressed - actually sounds more dynamic, generally speaking. Not to mention CD generally whimpy and non-coherent. Go figure. Go back, back to the future! Cassettes that were released BEFORE the start of the aggressive compression have greater dynamic range - when you hear them - than either the vinyl or the CD. Check it out!

^ Yes. I record vinyl albums to c-cassettes and listen them in my car. I also enjoy them as the second best music media at home. I owe original c-cassettes from early 70´s those not yet Dolby NRS and they outperform CD, particularly in the dynamics. I must point out that I don´t use noise reduction in recording `cos it compress dynamics.