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

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…

I have some 5000 LPs I have been collecting for 50+ years. I would say at least 97% is quite playable, probably more. 

Analog is 95% of what I play on my main hifi, and my analog source investment vs digital reflects that.

They all are!

Although I always strive for the best sounding system, I am more interested in the performance. I have several "covers" of the same work (like Beethoven's Seventh Symphony or "From the New World" by Dvorak).

This works for classical. For other kinds of music, there aren't as many covers. And sometimes only one recording of each song in an Artist's repertory.