I honestly don't know what I would do if I were starting out with putting a system together now. I have always loved having records & remember where & when I bought many of my LP's & singles, the excitement of new releases, reading the "secret " codes etched into the runout grooves, devouring all the information on the album sleeves. When cd's came along they did nothing for me sound wise & thought the little brittle plastic things they came in were pathetic, I wanted nothing to do with the usurper!
I have owned a CDP now & then, but I only ever bought cd's for the car, genuinely, I just cannot sit down & listen to one in the same way I can the magic vinyl discs. Saying that, buying into vinyl takes a big investment, not only in the cost of the equipment & the records themselves, but in time, & emotion. I wouldn't like to calculate how much this hobby has cost me in the 50 years I have been buying records, let alone the effort put into keeping them safe, just in the last 10 years I have moved house 11 times, & the first thing I do is sort out the safety of transporting my records & kit. But I wouldn't have it any other way of course.