The Rapid Rise (& Fall) of the CD

There are several drawbacks with streaming.

1. Historical and documentary information is generally unavailable on the recordings/artists.

2.1/3 or more of my 78s, LPs and CDs will never be streamed, especially ethnic music. Out of 61,100 LPs/78s/CDs/R2R

3. Streamed material can be added and deleted so that it’s here today and gone tomorrow.

4. Quality of the source material.

Actually, I prefer listening to solid state types of digital reproduction, flashdrives for instance perfect transfers from mastertapes/digital source material.  I have saved 100s of my favorite and rare CDs to solid state.  It's also transportable with ease.

Funny, I have 31,100 LPs and 16,300 CDs.  I need to cull 15% of each (duplicates and just uninteresting to me).  However, I would not want to be without either and I'm 68, part-time musician, recording engineer, composer (2X) archivist and singer.  However, that's my hobby.  I play my CDs through a Lampizator Poseidon (2nd system Topping D70s) and Jay's Audio Transport CDt3 Mk3.  CDs have exactly the same sonic and musical appeal as does analog.  Good mastering and good sound trumps the formats.  Streaming can be an equal but generally isn't as the source material is inferior 85% of the time, often as good and rarely better.  The best streaming sound is generally more expensive than my analog and digital setups.

@sokogear  So, I am a hoarder and overcollector.  I am 68.  At 5 years old I had 300 records (78s & LPs).  The variety provided that I would not get bored.  I removed/sold 18,000 records in the past two decades.  I have probably another 10,000+ to remove.  I also have 3,000 books in two libraries.  I put more money into my music than into my equipment and listening room until 5 years ago when I purchased a home with a 5,700' ground floor and an upscale guard gated neighborhood where I thought theft would be less likely, especially with 13 tons of music.  

I chose this as my primary hobby since I was a child.  I had friends Thomas Chandler, Chandler's Wind-Up in San Bernardino with 1.5 million recordings, Music Man Murray with 1 million, Michael Lane with 250,000 78s and 50s LPs and my a half dozen friends of Thomas Null with 225,000 recordings (Varese Sarabande and other mid-tier record/CD producer.

My ethnic music collection of 3,750 recordings, 150+ made/recorded/mastered by me including major venues Disney Hall, Royce Hall, Ford Ampitheater, etc. has provided music to many other musicians in Southern California.  I was and am the archivist for two mid-level classical composers including the 11 CD compilation of the Erich Zeisl Vienna Centennial in 2005. 

So, if you want to throw negativity on my collecting music for the purpose of listening to it or using it like a lending library for ethnic music, go ahead if it makes you feel better.