Playable LPs


For those of you who have very large collections of LPs, what percentage of them would you say sound good enough to justify the expense of your analog rig?

P.S. I have no agenda here.  Just curious.

rvpiano

With the caveat that I don’t play my analog rig very often, because my streaming end sounds just as good. . I would say 100% playable and 95% pristine or outstsanding. I have 2,000 albums and a $45K analog rig.
 

I have been very diligent in acquiring only extremely good quality copies, many are audiophile pressings. I have a high-quality record cleaner and I’m very careful with it. Surprisingly the stuff I bought in the 60s and 70s still sounds good I think because the stylus of high-end turntables goes much deeper into the grooves than the ones did back then so well if you played it on a 1970s turntable it probably sound terrible but surprisingly good on my system. These constitute the 5%. 

Maybe 75% or 80% or so of around 3k LP's. Some are just kept tor the art work or because I at least used to like them. I never really thought about it this way but it's how I feel about it anyway. Less than 50% of my records are ever likely to be played again but I keep them just the same. I see guys who now stream everything but still own thousands of records. The guy who I bought my latest preamp from has 10,000 records and never plays any of them anymore. I don't stream anything and I do play mine, CD's are getting more play lately but I'll never get tired of vinyl either. Hard to say if I'll ever get into streaming, just don't feel the need. 

85% to 90% of 2500 plus albums. A few years ago started purging the ones not enjoyable on my table.  My vinyl is the core of my listening though I have 11k albums on my NAS and Qobuz.  I still purchase older mono albums as they work amazingly well with my mono cart even though they appear a little surface abused.  Multiple tonearms and cartridges allow a little optimization of each album and if that optimization fails - out they go…