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

It is amazing how none of the responders have their systems posted here at a-gon. I feel like Steve of South Park who gravitates to the site in order to learn something but then goes away empty-handed. 
It takes one iPhone and 5min to update your profile, I know this because I did that! 
reading these comments that vinyl beats or gets beaten by digital is like shopping for new music on Amazon: a few posts say that I MUST get the latest from Marillion or Beyonce but "who is talking?!" This gets me to my next question: do you prefer vinyl while listening to AC/DC, Manovar, Tool, Beatles, Jane Monheit, Zappa?  
My point is: with Imagine Dragons I just do not care because CD is more convenient to play: albums are so overcompressed that I almost hate the music. Ion USB TT will never make me dump my CD player and spend extra on LPs. on the other hand, listening to Kind of Blue thru my Keel-ed/Naim-ed Sondek is an experience I do not get from HiRez or SACD. Once I get dCS stack I will learn more, but for now LPs beat my digital front-end...

Sevs- that's strange. I've had a virtual system posted here since 2006 or 7. But I didn't take a hard line on one format beats another for all purposes. 

An interesting development. I posted earlier in this thread and said that I generally prefer my analog outfit over my CD player, unless I was playing something hard and heavy. But! I just bought a new amp, I replaced my Forte' model 3 with a Krell FPB-300, a major jump I know. But suddenly the tide has shifted! Now my CD player, (Cary 306) has edged out my VPI Scout/Sumiko table. An unexpected consequence.  It proved to me that the differences between analog and digital aren't solely at the front end. Synergy of the system is what makes one better than the other. 

Sevs, Elmasonic record cleaner, 6 Quads, Koetsu, Linn for digital. Everything else DIY. Classical.

Correction: tonearm is not DIY, it is Trans-Fi air bearing. Also, I say analogue, no contest.