I can't handle digital after analog light my fire

Agree with Stringreen. $1000 digital just won't do it, no matter what anyone says. Also - don't listen to analog and digital in the same listening session. It confuses the ear.

"The engineering and mastering of the particular recording is by far the most significant variable, IMO, followed by the quality of the particular playback equipment."

Definitely true, Almarg. I just received my first Chesky CD and it sounds so natural, very much like analogue. Only problem is they have limited titles.
But getting back to the thread, I do love the sound of vinyl.

My CD collections still far exceed my LPs since I have been buying CDs from 1986 onward and only have been buying LPs for the last few years so I still listen to CDs and actually mainly my music servers for music that I don't have on LPs.
However, after listening to opera on CDs and now on music server, it is very hard to listen to opera on LPs. Far too many breaks at inopportune time. CD is not as bad and music server is perfect. I can listen to the whole opera or at least the whole act without interruptions the way the composer intended. Listening to Wagner on LP is painful.
Music gets interrupted way too often!
However, for most other things, I tend to listen to LP more.

I too was very dissatisfied with CD sound quality yet the convenience for casual listening is hard to resist.

I've since ripped all my CD's to a Mac Mini and on to a Squeezebox Touch then to a Metrum Acoustics Octave NOS DAC. Using Pure Music Audio Engine the results are even more convenience and much easier listening.

My expensive player is seldom used and I would never recommend another player.

Just sold my Wadia 270/27ix. It was a great player and I miss it. Replaced it with Marantz SA-8004 and AppleTV. I listen to 90% vinyl and 10% digital. Of the digital, 75% of iit is streaming files from my Mac.

It is correct, you can replace a top end digital rig with a $1000 one and get the same sound from digital.