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

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

I was an early adopter of the CD technology.  My first player was the Magnavox FD1000 in the early 1980’s.  This was essentially the Phillips CD100, but it was sold in the US under the Magnavox label.  

I maintained all my vinyl but really enjoyed the clarity of CDs.  Maybe it was my old dual 1229 turntable, but I hated when I purchased a new album and there were always a lot of crackles and pops when played.  With CDs, even though the engineering on early CDs was lacking, they were perfectly clear in playback.   That was a revelation at the time.  

Still have all my old vinyl but haven’t played a record in 30 years.   Don’t even have a turntable hooked up anymore.   These days I stream all my music.