I'm from a vintage of when CD's took off in the mid 80's. The CD was a God send to the hifi music listening community. I adopted well and even sold off my LP's by 1987, built up much of my CD collection via Columbia House by keeping on resigning up for those 11 discs for $1 sort of thing.
I fell back into vinyl in 2003 and went all in bananas, almost stopped listening to my CD's except for the car. I spent, cough cough pi$$ed away, way too much money riding the vinyl LP addiction I had.
This realization that I was only buying LP's for sake of buying discs ( especially used) as all too many sat on shelves not really being played, coupled with now my mental math of the THOUSANDS of $$$$ I was spending on turntables, cartridges, phono preamps and cleaning gear/ machines, hit me hard mentally. I saw that I was just listening to gear and not music.
From 2003 till 2019 I was ga ga on vinyl but the guilt of all the money I spent and most pi$$ed away hit me like a switch and turned me off my vinyl. I also pulled my out near 300 CD's I had siting and collecting dust in big CD binders and put them back into the jewel cases and on my software shelving. I began to thumb through the discs and played them on my current A/V set up and low an behold THEY SOUNDED FANTASTIC!. It was a refound pleasure of CD's I had ignored again accept for car playback since 2003.
The ease of just placing a CD in one of my 3 players ( classic Philips CD -101, Oppo BDP-83 and Panasonic DVD Recorder) to then sit down and with a remote hit PLAY was so enamouring to me now.
Out of essentially pure silence music flowed through my current A/V set up. Where as I for 18+ years chased to make my LP's sound clean and click free (never truly possible) as well as the effort to just spin an LP was yes for many years what I called it a ritual, became tiring when would switch from a CD to an LP.
As cool as it was for many years to play LP's I did realize once I got back in to playing my CD's on my home system that when listening to LP's I always new I was listening to a vinyl record, no matter how clean and click free it was. But when listening to my CD's I found I was just listening to music.
Now one can stream digital audio and get quality playback too, but again I am from a vintage of OWNING STUFF! Touchy feely things. The enjoyment of looking through my shelf of CD's and deciding which to pull out and play along with the CD booklet (some are very detailed other just slip sheets) sitting back in my seat a beverage in hand and just listening for what 45-60-80 minutes of uninterrupted music has become now my enjoyment, as when it was I bought my first CD player and CD's in 1984.
So yes, for me I want to keep doing this and when I want to, just buy CD's when desiring to, to add to my collection. I may stream music when personally listening through headphones on my smart phone but at home I want the TOUCHY FEELY AND PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP!
I fell back into vinyl in 2003 and went all in bananas, almost stopped listening to my CD's except for the car. I spent, cough cough pi$$ed away, way too much money riding the vinyl LP addiction I had.
This realization that I was only buying LP's for sake of buying discs ( especially used) as all too many sat on shelves not really being played, coupled with now my mental math of the THOUSANDS of $$$$ I was spending on turntables, cartridges, phono preamps and cleaning gear/ machines, hit me hard mentally. I saw that I was just listening to gear and not music.
From 2003 till 2019 I was ga ga on vinyl but the guilt of all the money I spent and most pi$$ed away hit me like a switch and turned me off my vinyl. I also pulled my out near 300 CD's I had siting and collecting dust in big CD binders and put them back into the jewel cases and on my software shelving. I began to thumb through the discs and played them on my current A/V set up and low an behold THEY SOUNDED FANTASTIC!. It was a refound pleasure of CD's I had ignored again accept for car playback since 2003.
The ease of just placing a CD in one of my 3 players ( classic Philips CD -101, Oppo BDP-83 and Panasonic DVD Recorder) to then sit down and with a remote hit PLAY was so enamouring to me now.
Out of essentially pure silence music flowed through my current A/V set up. Where as I for 18+ years chased to make my LP's sound clean and click free (never truly possible) as well as the effort to just spin an LP was yes for many years what I called it a ritual, became tiring when would switch from a CD to an LP.
As cool as it was for many years to play LP's I did realize once I got back in to playing my CD's on my home system that when listening to LP's I always new I was listening to a vinyl record, no matter how clean and click free it was. But when listening to my CD's I found I was just listening to music.
Now one can stream digital audio and get quality playback too, but again I am from a vintage of OWNING STUFF! Touchy feely things. The enjoyment of looking through my shelf of CD's and deciding which to pull out and play along with the CD booklet (some are very detailed other just slip sheets) sitting back in my seat a beverage in hand and just listening for what 45-60-80 minutes of uninterrupted music has become now my enjoyment, as when it was I bought my first CD player and CD's in 1984.
So yes, for me I want to keep doing this and when I want to, just buy CD's when desiring to, to add to my collection. I may stream music when personally listening through headphones on my smart phone but at home I want the TOUCHY FEELY AND PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP!