Do you play the same records over and over again?

@rvpiano I never listen to anything based on SQ alone, I have to like the music.

And I do stream a lot but when I sit down to play vinyl, most records are chosen for mood/music/production/pressing quality, generally in that order as my record collection is relatively new and were selected after deciding whether what I buy is "worth" owning on vinyl.

I have favorites, but I listen to a variety of music not just the same albums over and over. I try to be careful to buy a decent pressing when I make a purchase. I have bought a few of the cheap reissues that I don’t play because the sound quality is poor. There is too much good stuff to deal with that in my opinion.

@retiredaudioguy 

James Levine didn’t record Mahler Resurrection with the Chicago SO.  In fact he never made a commercial recording of the work.

  The CSO recorded it with Claudio Abbado in the seventies, a recording which I referenced above

Of course you are right!  He recorded many of the others - wonderfully but it is Solti & the CSO. 81 year old brain fart.  I find Levine's Mahler 3 with the CSO particularly excellent.

I had not heard the Abbado CSO recording, I am streaming the 1976 recording right now.

Thanks

I buy a lot of brand new music, just released right now (as opposed to new records that were published in earlier years/decades). Those I frequently play many times over and over, on average maybe 6 times, but some 20 and more. Yep, a bit OCD. It is in part as I like those a lot, so play the repeatedly, and also to get to know them, discover various aspects of the music.

Those records with which I am familiar I typically only listen to once, when I encounter them again. Just checking in ...