CD's or Vinyl?

@mylogic Thanks for the encouragement. No worries, I will never sell my vinyl collection. I give away Cd's now and then, extras or ones that never get played.

@niodari Cassettes are a great medium. As mylogic posted, with 3 head decks, can be very good indeed. I used to record all of my new records onto cassettes and then play the cassettes most of the time to save my records from wear. I gave up on that idea when cassette decks started eating the tapes. My son still has a cassette deck in his system and has a lot of tapes. My wife has one in her office system. I do not have one in mine. With a good operating deck, it is still a very fine way to listen to music. 

I really don't understand all the talk about the inconvenience of playing records or owning them or for that matter, owning any media like Cd's, tapes or whatever. I'm old and retired and I am not so busy that I can't take time out of most days (evenings, normally), to spin some records or put on a Cd or two. Having thousands of records and hundreds of Cd's, it's hard enough to decide what it is that I want to hear. I think I'd be lost with streaming. Having too many choices might not work for me, don't know and am not likely to ever try. I do find things on Youtube now and then, listen on my computer and if I like it, I'll buy it on Cd or vinyl or both. Anyway, just a few ramblings from an old time avid listener. Enjoy the music, no matter how you choose to listen. It's all good. 

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@mylogic, I agree that cassettes are good alternatives to LPs. The only problem I face now is the maintenance/repair of  type decks (also that of cassettes). The Pioneer CT-F1250 that I bought used is a completely wonderful deck, in both, the reproduction and recording, but when it works properly. If failed some time ago but after some cleaning it recuperated, however, it started to fail again. The mechanics, fast-forward, rewind,  were too weak from the beginning. Finding parts and repair is a problem. I have also Nakamichi CD2, one of their latest models, it works properly. Sound reproduction and recording are ok but just incomparable with the Pioneer. So, it makes not much sense to use it. 

@billpete, You may still try to stream with the autoplay on. Take your favorite group/musician, once the reproduction is complete, Tidal, at least gives a nice selection of "similar type" of music. I thought that the blues was dead, but thanks to the steaming, I learned that there are young good bluesmen, similarly in jazz (unfortunately,  the rock seems to be basically dead except that some old guys still continue to produce, good examples are Robert Plant and Ian Anderson (pity that  Ozzy Osbourne just passed away). 

PS I just auditioned two well-recorded cassettes on the (properly functioning) Nakamichi deck, Thelonious Monk XDR on Blue Note and I am still listening to Pat Metheny's Secret Story, comparing to the CD  version via streaming on Tidal. Streaming has a bit more defined sound reproduction but also brighter and more agresive, while the deck gives more peaceful and softer sound (a rough comparison, SS vs tube sound). The current setting is with a tube amp.

Which one do i like more? Honestly, I enjoy more the cassette, and this with the Nakamichi (with the Pioneer, which does not now reproduce well, there would be an even more clearer cassette preference).