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

I am about to find out. See my previous post on recommendations for an equipment stand:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/equipment-stand

Long story short, after 33 years I have just purchased a TT (Michell Engineering GyroDec, SME IV and Clearaudio Maestro V2 Ebony). First 3 MoFi LPs will be delivered today and the cartridge on Thursday. So, with luck should have the system up and running at the weekend. I will report back.

I never though vinyl was better.  I always thought it sounded different.  

And since 90% of my music listening if off vinyl, I guess this is a difference that I prefer.  I can make more of an emotional connection to the music faster than with digital - its gets my toes tapping sooner.  And tunes linger in my head longer after listening to vinyl.

And yet there are still some albums that I prefer digital with.  Although its just 10% of the time.

Gosh, has it really been 16 years ago when Michael Fremer, vinyl pundit extraordinaire of Stereophile, pronounced his pick for the five best sounding rooms at CES. Four of them were digital systems. The fifth room was the monster Walker Audio/Kharma room, featuring the Walker Turntable and the Grand Kharma Ceramique speakers.

Once I heard CD first time in 1989(Master Of Puppets) I realized that it sounded worse than cassette so didn’t bother jumping on CDs till mid-90’s when more interesting music were released on CDs not vinyls.
In general more great music is still released on vinyl than on any other media

Back in 1985?, when I was still impulsive and purchased the first available CD player, there were two brands, a Kyocera that sounded like mud. The best thing that digital purchase did for me was kill my impulsive nature, instead of accelerate it like it can. Of course, digital has come a long way, but like others have stated, has never given me that toe-taping emotional involvement. I still get bored with it after awhile. Recently, I moved out my digital front end off my rack and over to my other system. When the software, network, NAS, DAC, USB to SPDIF Converter, whatever, start to misbehave, I can find nothing so inconvenient and frustrating when I just want to listen to my music. How easy it is just to plop on a record and enjoy. I also enjoy, getting up and flipping over the LP, but realize I can't walk away and listen to it like Muzak. Digital has it beat there, but I also have a radio for that. I do understand how so many find the sound of digital to be excellent, but it's not the sound I prefer.
Kenny