Jim - If you grew up with vinyl as I did, you would have been happy to switch formats.

I remember college parties when some drunk s c r a t c h e d the needle across my precious new record.
I remember being too drunk to bother getting up to turn the damn things over and play the other side.
And then - just like tape - every time you played a record, you knew you were ruining the media, just a little bit more. I had favorite records that I bought 4 or more times by the time CDs came out.
If you had little kids you had to keep telling them not to bump or jump in the living room because the needle would jump and cause a pop.

However, with that said, analog warmth is a very real fact. I have gotten around it by extensively testing pre-amps and power amps and choosing "warm sounding amps" and by buying very high end CD players. The one I am using now has a tube based DAC and is very sweet. Unfortunately the company that produces it is also out of business

Kathleen