Question for the older folks- did you ditch vinyl when cd arrived?

I bought my first CD player in the summer of 1992 though I started buying CD’s during the autumn of 1991. A mail-order Technics for $130 from J&R Music in NYC. I already had a modest LP collection and a nice British belt-drive TT/tonearm/lomc cartridge/SUT.

I did.....eventually!!!  Happy listening.

I jumped on the CD bandwagon when they first came out.  I remember buying my first CD player, a Sharp unit at a Best Buy (which was also a new store back then).  I then started buying CD;s and rarely purchased any more vinyl.  I kept playing the vinyl I had, but slowly faded away from it.  After the advent of ripping to a digital file, I converted my whole collection to a hard drive.  Later I re-ripped my entire collection in lossless format and stored on a NAS.  I still buy CD's but gave my entire vinyl collection to my son.

I still worked for other people, thus very little disposable income.

Until I quit smoking, I had a small budget every bi-weekly payday. A few discounted LPs from Record Hunter on 5th, near 43rd street, a store on Madison around 45th, a 3rd store ... , all in a lunchtime loop from my office on 44th near 6th avenue (Leonard Radio, audio equip. was in the lobby of our small building, it was the former Hammond Organ showroom). (Harveys audio equipment was on 45th, near 5th Ave), as was Tech HiFi, several others.

The Madison avenue store was clearing out 8 tracks, 6 for $5., .88c each with tax sticks in my mind, so I decided, buy music you would never risk real money on, listen when you retire, hear what they were all about. Well, that was a bust, the foam pressure pads all dissolved into dust.

Then I quit smoking, spent all my tobacco money on music, $700./year: now I started buying CDs. The era of early harsh sounding CDs was already passed.

I kept all my LPs and people kept giving me theirs when they stuck with CD only. I wasn't playing LP's for a long time, the freedom from noise, clicks, pops was amazing, and, my LPs were not in great shape.

So, while not listening to LPs, my collection was growing, not all my taste, I just put them on the shelf and played CDs.

No, I purchased a high end CD player (Sonic Frontiers Iris/Processor 3).  I liked the quiet backgrounds and dynamics but was always sensitive to digital glare in the upper midrange and treble.  So I keep my analogue rig for critical listening.  I still have the same analog rig, only updated to a degree.  Today, I only listen by streaming and my digital file library.  The digital glare is no more.  I only go analog in those extremely rare occurrences where I want to hear an album I have that is not on Qobuz.  Emphasize “extremely rare”. I have not sold any of my record collection.