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

@pkthesublime 

As vinyl ages the first thing to drop off is the bass

No, it does't, not if you take care of your records, keeping them and the stylus clean and tracking in the recommended VTF range, and replace the stylus when worn.

I've been collecting records for over 50 years (mostly classical and jazz), and my oldest records still sound excellent. Records don't wear out like that: maybe if you play them many hundreds or thousands of times, but the vast majority of record collectors don't play any one record that much. That's a corner case of use.

That was the case in my corner!

Then something was wrong with your setup. Vinyl LPs don’t lose bass response with normal use. I’ve never heard that claim before.

I was just listening to my copy of Alfred Brendel playing Schubert piano sonatas on the Philips label. That album is 40+ years old and I have played it many times over the years, as a favorite in my collection. It’s recorded really well and has great bass response. That has not diminished over the years. Nor has any other record in my collection of some 5000 LPs.

Yes, initially. I gave many away for about 6 months until I realized something was wrong with the music. It finally did all the things I'd hoped for (no noise, no pops, great bass) but I wasn't listening as much as I had been. It took quite a while until I realized where the problem was, I didn't want to believe it, so I didn't. A friend brought over a Philips player and we substituted it for my Kyocera and BANG the evidence was there on song #1 (Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild, hardly an audiophile recording). Lesson #1: Bits is not bits!

Not for CDs but definitely for Qobus