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

I started out with vinyl LPs (and had some cassette music when that was a thing) but I unloaded my vinyl. I was still in the part of my life when I was moving around frequently and when new music was all on CD and the pieces I liked best were re-issued on CD, I bought those and listened to the LPs less and less. That was the late '80s and early '90s.  Eventually I sold off my TT and cartridges when I bought a more audiophile-grade disc player. I didn't miss vinyl at all, TBH. I understand why some still like the medium, but I suspect that is partly nostalgia and for younger listeners curiosity about an old-school hi-fi tech that did a decent job. I mostly stream now and have ripped nearly all my disc collection. I have some tube amps  and enjoy that kind of vintage gear, but I really have no desire to rebuild a vinyl collection. I suppose if I had built a collection of thousands of LPs and was more invested in audiophile-level  playback equipment I might have done differently, but my TT was a basic Technics belt-drive and I used a Shure M95ED at first and then changed to a B&O cartridge, both were nice enough, but I moved along as the tech changed.

We didn't intentionally make the switch, but switch, we did.  When my wife and I got together we had a combined collection of several hundred LPs.  We live in the Pacific Northwest and in January 1993 there was a major storm. A coastal redwood was blown over.  It took off the entire front of our house, going all the way to the foundation, right through the listening room.  For a week after the storm, there was snow followed by rain.

The house was unsafe, so we were unable to rescue much.  It took out our entire system, including K-horns, a great NAD receiver, a Teac R2R, and both turntables.  All our LPs were either crunched or turned to mush and the tapes were ruined, too. 

When it came time to shop for replacements, we decided to go with CDs.  While some of the CDs from that era were pretty awful, they almost always had poor LPs, too.  But we certainly didn't miss the downsides of LPs, not to mention the fear of even a little slip ruining it forever.

As time has gone on, we went further with digital by ripping to APE or FLAC on a server and now to streaming, such that it is currently a rare event to use a physical CD.  Frankly, I find the quality to be as good if not better, much less hassle, and no fear of pops, scratches, and noise as well as losing the collection again from a random event.

I made the switch because, at the time, I was very focused on exploring Jazz and the original Blue Notes and such on vinyl were quite expensive in used record shops in Southern Maine. There were major Jazz reissue programs underway on CD, so it was a matter of economics. I bought a Sony ES something or other... sounded like a box of dimes tossed down a stairwell, paired with a Harmon Kardon integrated and Boston Acoustics speakers. I eventually switched to a Denon, which was definitely an improvement. I've heard friends' high end vinyl systems. They sound nice but I don't enjoy the music I favor on vinyl any more than I do on my CD system. I've never considered going back. 

I Ditched LP when CD became available because they have nearly twice as much music on them, also I became disenchanted with Turntables as they were difficult to quantify at that time.some of the Family worked for Philips so we were OK!. The first two CD I purchased .. Andrea's Vollenweider White Winds and Yes 90125.

Let us not forget Cassette. Elcaset, MiniDisk, Reel to Reel, Solid State SD card and CD-r with smatterings of WAV on Hard Drives. With the return of the turntable at $6000 upwards for that which everyone wanted to get rid of.

I was very intrigued with CDs, especially as a replacement for cassette tape. I started buying them at a rate of about 1 per month. $17 bucks for a classical CD was a lot for me in my youth. Each CD got listened to a LOT! I didn’t ditch LP right away because I had too much music on LP to do that. However I noticed early on that some albums sounded better on LP than on CD. Chariots of Fire was one I remember specifically. On the LP the sound was very immersive and filled the room with spacy effects. And that was from a JC Penny MCS cheapo stereo. On CD it seemed too bright and the sound stage was clear and precise but flat and limited to between the speakers. There were also very obvious low level linearity issues with early cheap CD players like I had, causing flutes to sound unnaturally breathy, and even causing some CDs to exhibit audible buzzing sounds. A few generations later those issues disappeared, but tonality seeming to be too bright on some transfers from older LP releases remained.