Bob, I'm now minded to go in yr direction
My system has been down for a yr, and from a previous diet of 2/3 vinyl and 1/3 cd (on Eera Tentation cdp) w my digital and lps co existing nicely, and my personal preference ever so slightly moving to accepting digital more and more, in the last 12 months I've had a 100% diet of SGM server dishing up HQP/512 dsd via T&A Dac8 heard at Barry Blue58's, and I am a convert
So much so, that my last major upgrades are lab grade passive air isoln to max out my tt, but no tt/arm/cart/phono upgrades, followed by a massive upgrade myself from the Eera to likely SGM/Dac8/Sablon Reserva Elite unpwrd USB
You can see from this decision how much in yr camp I am, even as an avowed died in the wool analog maniac