My objection to digital in the 80s - as a 90% classical listener - was mainly on the grounds of unappealing, harsh sound, but also on the limited repertoire available.
Yes I had an LP12 at the time, into a Technics amp and Tannoys. Didn't use my 1970s Sony tape deck much except to make tapes for the car. But as a system it was enjoyable.
I could see the benefits of CD - no crackly noise to distract from the quiet passages, no worries about tracking in the loud bits, or about jumps and scratches - but overall the sound just wasn't there for me.
And what material was coming out in the classical market wasn't that compelling - DG were in thrall to Karajan so you got lots of new recordings of the old potboilers - Beethoven and Brahms symphonies, warhorse romantic piano concertos, endless weirdly shaped box sets of tedious operas. Not that much interesting stuff. And this approach was replicated by their competitors. If you already had a decent record collection and any sort of taste beyond the safe, stuffed-shirt material on a loop at the Royal Festival Hall, you were out of luck.
Even worse in non-classical though - visiting a hifi shop and it was wall to wall Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, electro-pop manufactured to sound snappy and modern for CD - it was awful. (My, how things have changed ... )
Anyway I didn't buy a CDP till the early 90s and I replaced my amp and tape deck at the same time with Denon gear as it sounded better to me than the early stuff. By that time some classical stuff was only being released on CD.
Of course there was good gear coming out by the mid-late 80s, but I couldn't have afforded a CD 94 at the time, or at least I wouldn't have borrowed that much money for it without any CDs to play on it.
Remember that LPs at the time were £5-6 for full price, and from about a quid for stuff with the corner snipped off, as opposed to £13.50 for a CD. Even better when second hand stuff began appearing in large amounts by the early 90s as all the idiots got rid of their vinyl - some of us filled our boots. Some places could hardly give classical records away. I recall in New Zealand one s/h record shop in Wellington (what would now be called a 'pop-up as it was only open for a few weeks) offering 4 LPs for $1 NZ - at the then exchange rate that's four for 30p. I have some fabulous Lieder and chamber music recordings from that store but also jazz and rock - Jimmy Smith, Humble Pie, Brubeck ...
Hopefully we aren't far off the moment (we may be in it now) when you can't give away classical CDs as all the fashion followers pile into streaming.
Anyway I've never actually reached a point where my digital has been better than my analogue and I doubt I ever will. But digital in 1984, when the CD84 came out ... a piece of history, a bit of fun, but even plugged into a quality modern setup I doubt it will suddenly blossom.