On a vinyl enthusiasts portal, the answer to the OP's question will be difficult to get a clear answer, buying vinyl and producing tapes with the vinyl, was my first experience of music that I had a control of, if you discount choosing a radio station.
The whole experience around buying the vinyl, as well as the well known ritual and haptics, are indelible and in my experience not matched by any other medium.
With the knowledge learnt through continued pursuit of attempting to achieve the best replay ( budget dependent), the understanding of the requirements to achieve such a set up, becomes a hobby in itself, without any music involved.
The engineering, tuning, timing,leveling, attenuation, isolation, maintenance, requirements to be thought about, for a device and media that can be disturbed by the most miniscule effects of the environment the device is set up in, has a varied level of appeal to any individual use Vinyl as a replay medium.
Taking into account the nurturing of such devices and media, to reassure one, that they are as close to a day it was bought condition, also has a infectious hold on a certain type of individual, these outlined requirements, become much more than the norm required for a maintenance of any tool one will use.
Give me a Swiss Analogue Watch of certain brands, these are engineered, to a similar discipline of a TT set up, the watch has to do a Job, just like the TT has to.
Even though ownership of both watch and TT, might equate to equal amounts of pride of ownership. The discipline one will develop to maintain the unfaltering performance of one of these items will far surpass that of the other.
I find it hard to believe that any individual born into the era of a non CD Market, who took the Vinyl experience, beyond just dropping a stylus into a groove, would separate themselves from their replay equipment and media collection without and regret .
I introduced for the first time into my system, the option to replay CD in 2016.
It was 1990, that I first entered into the serious world of being HiFi enthusiast, having my first commission built HiFi device built by a EE in 1993.
I have had my latest commission built device, designed and built by the same EE, supplied to me in 2018.
Relationships are created in HiFi that extend beyond the Devices and Media, and these friendships today are valued even more, as the shared ideas,
follow up discussions and works produced, are the root of some of the methods being put into use in the home system replays.
knowing a performer for a long time, that allowed one to share a input into their creativity, who eventually presented a Album that is being played on the home system, will be a type of comparison.
I put my system out for its first ever public audition in 2019, at the Wam Show at Kegworth Hotel, Room 106,
( The Build it Yourself, or if that is not possible, Have Someone Build it for You Room ).
Fifty Exhibitors were attending, and on the day, Five Hundred Paying Public visited.
With my intention of extending the social side of my HiFi Journey, meeting other enthusiasts, allowing others the chance to experience my system, and just maybe meet a few that are being influenced by some of the choices I have made for my system, in the hope they find something they wish to investigate, that was not on their radar.
I think it is fair to say I achieved my goal in every department
