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


I kept all my LPs and most anytime I was in lower Manhattan I’d go into J&R music and often picked up an LP but for years my predominant purchase format was cd 

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I had a high quality TT when CD's first came out. Of course I purchased the best CD player available at the time based on the advice of the Audio shop I did business with. I liked CD's at first but after a while they sounded clinical compared to vinyl. Now I stream everything, better all around in my opinion.

I put my lps on the shelves in my hall closet and bought cds ,like crazy.Then in 2013 I sold my lps 1100 for $1,400 bucks...but then the vinyl craze hit and I bought over 2,000 lps from people who where selling them cheap...I bought alot of Beatles, Doors,Jethro  Tull,alot of new stuff....oh well.Oh and 5 new turn tables....hey I'm a wacko.

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I started with cassettes- had about 250…Then moved to CD.  I have over 1,000 CDs and then moved into vinyl.  Have about 750 records.  With streaming it helps me buy stuff that I don’t have to gamble on.  I can listen first then go find it on the format I enjoy most….the LP.  Streaming also plays a part when I’m lazy and wanna rock out

I kept my vinyl collection, but it started getting hard to find LP's, so I jumped on the CD bandwagon. I was in Japan and Korea from 1984 until 1999. The base exchange sold only CD's starting around 1986 or so. 

When I got back to the states I started buying vinyl again. I just missed the sound of vinyl and the ritual of playing records.

At the end of my CD buying days, I had around 1500. My vinyl collection consists of around 3000 LP's.

Nope. Still have all my records.
But I did buy an inexpensive Sony CD/DVD player when DVD came out. It’s still in use for both formats.