Considering going Vinyl--Please talk me out of it

Well, I like the czccbl (sounds like a polish name I once tried to pronounce in Chicago and got the door slammed in my face)approach. I can get a great AR mod, do the memory lane thing, buy some old jazz records, and then jump off the vinyl cliff and splatter myself all over the rocks of Obsession, continuing until I have a tt that looks like something the U.S. marines would explode with the aid of their bomb control units......

If you are getting in do spend as much as a sailboat will cost, I have a mediocre vinyl setup and my CD is far better, of course I am always toying with the idea of upgrading, but I really have to trash my current vinyl rig and buy a new one...or a sailboat.
In the meantime I am having a ball tweaking my horn speakers and my tube amps, coupling cap rolling and tube rolling, mainly rectifiers (what a change!)...So if audio on its whole isnt teaky enough now I need to relearn how to setup a cartridge dig out my protractor, choose the right arm that will probably cost an arm and a leg, and decide between SS or tube phonopreamp (my old tube preamp wont play moving coil)...All this to relisten to my old 80s Lps which I dont want to rebuy as CDs and that doesnt really sound good anyway... I go to used LP stores and I manily find my own Vinyl collecion over and over again...nothing new (what a surprise!!!)
So its newer Lps at 30 buck a piece for me.

But when a go to a friends house with one of those nice wedding cake turntables, vinyl can sound so good...

Some of these turntables you guys have posted here would never make it through an airport metal detector..bomb scare!...

Beware that after you taste good vinyl, you may either stop listening to RBCD altogether, or else enter the two formats in an arms race of upgrades on a scale that bankrupted the USSR. Over the years your upgraded analog and digital front ends will exchange leadership positions several times in your system. In the end the audiophile vocabulary will be struck dumb to describe any meaningful differences between the formats. But alas, when you're finally ready to forget all about upgrades and just sit down and listen to music, you'll be forced to sell off the entire system to replenish retirement accounts.

No lie, on a great CDP RBCD can approach and some respects surpass good vinyl.

I agree with Dgarretson. This is why I decided to support one format. And besides I can't stand surface noise (snap, click and pop; sounds like the rice krispy characters) and I don't care how hard you try you can not eliminate it 100%.