Do you play the same records over and over again?

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.

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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 ... 

All my records have been listened to at least once. There are around 20 that get listened to more often, maybe 10 or so that are "perfect" albums that you want to listen to front to back. 

Sadly, will say, that I'm starting to listen to Tidal more, records less. Even purchasing less records now that there over $35 each in my are. 

On my system, some records sound better over Tidal, and some songs on Tidal sound better than my records. It's good to have both.