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 never sold the bulk of my vinyl.  Probably sold 50 to fund CD purchases. 

I bought a CD player in ’88 --  my junior year of college -- first CDs being the Pretty in Pink Soundtrack and The Damned, Strawberries. Both used sitting in a little used CD box at the cashier. 

I never officially stopped buying vinyl, but for a few years before we bought a house I had it in storage without room to have them or a TT out. 

Now, I pretty much don’t buy CDs since just about any CD is available streaming (will buy if not available).  If I really love an album, I buy the vinyl. Much more of a permanent investment in the title and I presume the artist gets a bit more from the 2x to 3x price of vinyl. 

Given the mass availability of digital, my goal is no longer to have a library of every title.  Just the best albums to put on and enjoy all the way through.

My current unusual rig has made everything vinyl more enjoyable  2 pretty good carts through two pretty good preamps into an Allen & Heath 2-channel analog mixer. I can queue up one record while the other plays, adjust the gain based on the record, and crossfade.  You know the sound is really pretty good...I put a good amount of research into the best reasonably priced mixer. The hands-on DJ feel experience is worth it.

I listen 90% digital, but that 10% vinyl is high reward. 

PS: one thing I do buy regularly on optical disc is SACD, DVDA, and BD multichannel mixes before they go out of print and get crazy expensive. If you really like an album or an artist, those are generally a treat. 

To this day I have never bought a CD player. I can play CDs on my Oppo BD 105 but I bought it to watch Blu Ray movies and listen to SACDs. I have about 15 CDs. Probably 150 SACDs. About 100 movies.

I concentrate on my vinyl front end because I have over 4000 records.

When CDs came out I thought they sounded like crap and didn't even buy a CDP. I have an Arcam DVD player I can use as a CDP, but no longer use it. If need be I could use it as transport into my DAC, but have only ever done that once when someone came by with a CD to audition speakers I was selling. By the time I started buying CDs (mostly classical not available on vinyl) I was ripping them to play on a network streamer via UPnP. 

I've still never bought a decent CDP and have no need, especially now that I have Qobuz. I last bought a CD 10+ years ago. I never abandoned vinyl and have 5000+ LPs.