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

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.  

Shortly after I heard the first C.D. I was done with vinyl , scratchy , warped , cannot imagine why anyone would prefer them  The post guy that called us all nit wits for ditching vinyl should learn how to spell it so he doesn't sound like a nitwit. At that point the records were worthless and a roof leak from the second story trickled down into the closet under the stairwell where the records were stored and ruined most of them by sticking the album cover to the record so in the trash they went and never looked back. I was able to get a good price for my Thorens turntable with the Rabco arm though. C.D.'s got much better fast , the old stuff got remastered to first 20 bit then 24 bit and with the Luxman DX-104 player I got sounded great. Then around late 1998 the SACD format came around , double wow. I got a Marantz SA-1 I think it was and like to wore it out , it made all the silver discs sound good. Nowdays I have a Denon DCD A-110 player that is fabulous and quite a SACD collection. I like classic rock especially the old hippie stuff because at 80 I still am. It was the greatest time in the history of the world to have been a young person. To my ears it seems as though the original single layer discs many of which were turquoise blue are the best of it but the hybrids are good too. I have an original 2004 Kenwood Sirius XM tuner in my system I use sometimes it is not audiofile quality but better than the newer 10 ounce ones. I still enjoy FM. I live up in the mountains of AZ. so only one station classic rock 5000W daytime , 500W at night but found an amplified indoor rabbit ear antenna that pulls it in great. My McIntosh MR-71 tuner is a thing of beauty. Recently ran an optical cable from the TV to the McIntosh MA 7900 int. amp now I have U tube at 200 W.P.C. , have you heard some of the AI videos? The sound is terrific

I tend to be a slow adopter of new stuff.

I resisted getting into CD in the early years when the technology was still evolving.  My first CD player was in my SUV in the early '90s.  Obviously I have kept all my vinyl.

I still buy vinyl, CDs, and SACDs, tho I did quit buying cassettes.  Inconsistent internet service has helped keep me from getting into streaming -- thankyou Spectrum!

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Quboz was not available in the late 80s the 1990s and early 2000s, Nor was the iPhone or iPad.