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 did not sell my LPs and began buying CDs as they became the dominant format.

As a collector, I enjoy having music in the original format it was released in or recorded for when possible.  As an audiophile, I try to get the best sound out of all of the formats in my collection.  

No, I worked in a record store and we all thought those early CDs sounded like crap. I had a few, but not many. Like many, I was a strident vinyl purist. As the 80’s moved into the 90’s, CD playback got better and they started reissuing all kinds of stuff, an amazing out of music became available. And playback and CDs got better and better. During that time I started seriously buying more CDs because it sounded good. I still liked and bought vinyl but over time I bought more CDs. I worked at various record stores and got lots of promos. By the late 90's early 00's I was buying mostly CDs. 

Now I have large collections of vinyl and CDs. My listening room is screen free so no streaming. Never streamed. I don’t want to pay so I can listen to some crappy remaster by an aging artist with no high end hearing left and I don’t want to deal with more equipment and some sort of device to deal with it. I like picking something from the shelf and living in the material world. 

Yes and no.

Yes: prior I was using quality cassette tapes for recordings to use in car. I loved CD low noise floor

No: my high-end audio hobby did not start until my senior years. It was then I started accumulating vinyl. Currently maybe at ~2000. 

Yes. Dumped my vinyl decades ago and have never looked back. Was tired of warpage, snap, crackle and pop, and the ritual of having to meticulously clean records.