Living Stereo sound bad?


Sorta a sidebar to another of my threads but, I recently bought a bunch of original Living Stereo label LPs. The guy I bought 'em from had them stacked like flap jacks. When I cleaned the records, the pops and ticks were relatively far and few between but, I would've expected the sound quality to be much better. Does the reputation of these records apply to ALL the Living Stereo records or just a few? Could the way they were stacked have caused any damage? Could they have been played on a junky table that caused groove damage? Just curious.
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My experience with the old ones- pre Dynagroove US RCAs was generally that they sounded 'soft' and did not have prominent bass, but very natural sounding strings, horns, massed instruments sounded anything but harsh- but more surface noise than other comparable vintage records, eg Living Presence, Londons, etc.
I think the reissues by Classic make buying some of the older ones less compelling, if only because of less noise. Years ago, when the Chesky reissues were the ticket, a friend and I did some direct comparisons and found that we liked the sound of the early "White Dog" best- don't remember which recordings, though.
RCA had some novelty records in the period, too- including all the Hugo Winterhalter, Music for a ____, and other (Esquivel) that were fun.
I have tons of 'em.