Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it

All my friends agree CDs sound like crap, vinyl is alive, or they're not my friends.

Go for it! Jump!
Don't be a CD weenee.
Make it a point to hit every Goodwill store in town.

After listening to CD's for twenty years I took the plunge back into Analog. I had alot of turntables as a kid. I come from a family of musicians. I bought a used VPI Aries with a new wood bodied Benz cartridge. I had it professional set up by the very well known Brooks Berdan. I also bought a ARC-Ph-5
here on Audiogon. All told with cables and a VPI cleaning machine I spent 6000.00. Keep in mind I bought the TT used as well as the phono-pre and cables. If I had purchased everything new I would of spent 10,000.

I have a Gamut CD-1 which is a highly regarded CD player that I have enjoyed for the last 4 years. I have also had other highend CD players.

To make a long story short I have had the VPI setup for the last 9 months and I have only listended to the CD player twice. Once you get a good vinyl setup you will not want to listen to CD's anymore. There is just no comparison.

No Bucketjr...CD's sound very good indeed. Comparing my Ayre C5xe to my Superscoutmaster/10.5i/Benz Ebony LP, the CD sounds like there is a scrim in font of the performance. The difference is like regular tv to hi def

Aborigine, your system definitely cost more than a sailboat; probably in the neighborhood of a Cal 45 footer...