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Did you replace your original record collection with CD's

Did you replace your original record collection with CD's

  • Yes, bought my collecion all over again

  • Started replacing but never finished

  • Only my favorite albums

  • No, kept my legacy records and bought new albums on CD's

  • Kept my records, never bought CD's

  • Replaced the ones that were available on CD and kept the rest on Vinyl

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When CDs started being popular I bought them instead of vinyl but I kept my LPs. When it became possible to copy CDs on computers I started buying the used CDs that became available cheap because they were easy to travel with and I traveled a lot for work in the late 90s. Still have everything, including a lot of dupes of CDs and LPs All the CDs are ripped to MP3 for easy transportabiity and playback on USB sticks in the car.
 
Of the many mistakes I've made, letting my vinyl go is right up there. I was in the military in the late 80's and CD's seemed like the future (and a lot easier to move from place to place), so I let them go. Didn't have a "huge" collection - perhaps 100 or so - but more than I can affordably replace now. Beyond losing some that have never been released since (including some cool vinyl bootlegs), I find many later remixes to be worse than the original.

Oh well, c'est la vie
 
TomKatt said:
Of the many mistakes I've made, letting my vinyl go is right up there. I was in the military in the late 80's and CD's seemed like the future (and a lot easier to move from place to place), so I let them go. Didn't have a "huge" collection - perhaps 100 or so - but more than I can affordably replace now. Beyond losing some that have never been released since (including some cool vinyl bootlegs), I find many later remixes to be worse than the original.

Oh well, c'est la vie
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Made the same mistake. Now selling off CDs and re-reacquiring releases on vinyl. It is hard to get vinyl of the same quality of the ones I lost.
 
TomKatt said:
Of the many mistakes I've made, letting my vinyl go is right up there.
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I gave away or traded in many of my favorites when they came out on CD...then sat for years wondering why they never sounded as good. Some I've managed to find sealed copies of on vinyl and repurchase. Like an early pressing of Synchronicity pressed on the KC-600 vinyl. I've cut way back on new vinyl purchases, only because I've purchased things I've spun maybe only a few times since buying them. I have friends who go out on Record Store Day, buy a few dozen records, and they probably spin them once. If that. The very few RSD records I've purchased have been legitimately rare pressings, so no regrets there. (No novelty pressings, no bottom scrapings...whcih IMHO describes 90% of RSD releases anyways.)

Nowadays I only buy what I can use. I'm actually quite happy with that arrangement. :)
 
Funny thing is I find myself replacing my cd collection with vinyl I Said when I got my turn table that I'll only buy what I don't have on cd.yeah right Since I got my tt I don't think I've listen to a cd since haha....Long live vinyl
 
Back in the day I replaced my vinyl with CDs, now most of the CDs are toast from riding around in cars so I'm replacing them with vinyl slowly.
 
I started buying CDs when they first came out and haven't purchased any records since. Some of the early CDs that were made of early recordings that were originally on vinyl did sound horrible. My CD collection has gotten out of control. I have 6 large containers full of CDs so I bought JRiver software and burned them all to FLAC files and put the CDs in the attic. When I run across a vintage recording on CD that has poor quality I delete it and download a hi Res version from Qobuz. I have found that so far, the Hi Res versions are quite good compared to the CDs that were made of early recordings. All new music that I buy I download so I don't have the storage problem. I am running a core duo processor with a hundred dollar sound card and the results sound good to me. I started listening to my mother's Elvis recordings on her RCA mono record player. It ate records. I have had a few turntables over the years and the last one, a Sony direct drive with a Grado cartridge that I bought in the early 70's, still works. In my experience, with my equipment, I found that some vinyl sounded very good while others did not. You always got the pops and scratches. I prefer the FLAC files to any format I have tried. I had a copy of Abby Road on CD that had bad quality. The FLAC download was really quite good.
I had a TEAC casette deck while I had the Sony turntable so I got in the habit of only playing the album one time and making a tape copy that got played over and over. It preserved the vinyl and the tape could go in the car or stay in the house as needed. I had a Pioneer Super Tuner casette player in the car. 8 inch coax speakers in the doors.
 
Bought some LP's on CD when they came out. Then new stuff CD and LP since. Burn old LP's to Wave.

So an all around sorta guy.
 
I didn’t vote either.

My friends and I would buy whatever record and everyone would get a copy on cassette. So not a ton of new record buys back then, as it was the twilight or LP reign and CDs were too new and expensive. But tapes were where I got most of my pre recorded music after that, and then migrated to CDs, including recording them with a Philips unit that dubbed but needed a diet of only gluten free “music” CDRs. Once that died, I got a Tascam CD-RW402 that is bomb proof and is just as happy eating Staples CDRs as it is the organic grass fed high-dollar variety.

I started subbing some tapes to CDR and sort of got sucked back into tapes, and all along buying used CDs and LPs when the opportunity is right. And lately, CDs have been ripe for the picking. I’ve doubled my CD collection in the last year or two. Running out of space...
 
I'm doing the opposite, replacing my Sterile and lifeless sounding CD collection with Vinyl, but I've far exceeded my CD collection in the last 5 years.

I'm often frustrated to find a CD I once had unavailable on Viny or extremely rare and expensive (usually a 90s title) I had to order from some pretty far away country's to get what I want.

Thank You Discogs!
 
Read Old Records Never Die, by Eric Spitznagel. This subject [getting rid of your original records] causes me to have a sort of psychosis that makes me realize just how much I gave away. A lot of my early LPs were from my bro. Especially now that some of my family is dead and good friends have moved away, I miss that wax. Luckily I do still have a handful of my originals [Beach Boys Concert, Beatles Help, Hendrix Are You Experienced?...] but about 400 others are...gone. So: now I am buying them used to replace them. But I'd give anything to have back that Blind Lemon Jefferson compilation with my brother's name scrawled on the top. The CDs I bought were mostly 1980s music [late punk, new wave.]
 
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I started to replace a few LPs then I got a turntable a few months ago. I rarely use it and it was probably was a dumb idea. Online streaming via bluetooth to my main system sounds great and represents 90% of my listening these days.
 
Spe@kerBox said:
I had a number of MFSL pressing I let go - I hate myself for that.
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Kept all my audiophile pressings (MFSL, Nautilus, CBS Half Speed .. etc). Bought them back during the very early 00's .. before the price jump .. been tempted to sell them .. many a time .. but just can't bring myself to do it. I'll probably regret that someday.
 
I got rid of some of my records , but kept most of them . CD's have dominated my listening since they came out . I have 10 times as many CDs as records .
 
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