Your "eureka" digital moment

As much as the romance of vinyl appeals to me,the simplicity of my laptop with 40,000 songs wins the argument.

My "digital moment" came this past week after I replaced the two stock fuses in the ARC CD7se with the SR RED fuses. I thought the player was good before, but now ... WOW! Digital in my house has now gone from "convenience" to running serious competition with my vinyl rig. 

On the "snap, crackle and pop" ... I have thousands of LPs, both mono and stereo. Many are 50 years old and older and contain music that's not available on CD. I'll take a little tape hiss and a little noise in order to enjoy the music that's hidden in those grooves. And by the way, many of my records are just about silent ... even the mono recordings.

As soon as I switched from CD player to rip and stream via a good quality DAC only, about 7 years ago or so.

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.

For me, the closest to such a moment came after I had loaded a significant part of my collection (4400+ CDs) on a music server--I had no idea how important it is to have the ease of browsing and accessing the collection that I now enjoy.  I listen primarily to digital media these days.  The sound of digital media is very good and enjoyable.  But, as someone who has both a nice digital and analogue setup, I know that vinyl, at its best, outshines digital--the music sounds more harmonically saturated (dense), the attack and decay of notes sounds more natural, small changes in dynamics are more readily apparent.  Good analogue tape is at yet higher level of performance.