Excellent sounding LPs

I do remember the era when there were many reissues of rock, and some jazz from the ‘60s and 70’s that simply sounded terrible in comparison to the originals. I think that was the 80s maybe early 90s. I don’t remember for sure but they just were terrible. I’d get home finding a brand new unopened copy of some thing and I put them in turntable. It would just sound terrible. Very depressing. I think I tossed most of them. They were so bad.

@ghdprentice 

yup, also the "greatest hits" albums from around the same time.  There was no control over the master used for the Vinyl, so, they could be using a dup of a dup of a dup, etc....   Dynamic range suffered.....   On a positive note, it is really cool how the audiophiles have banded together on the Hoffman and Discogs forums to sift through all the forensics of most of this vintage rock vinyl. 

@baylinor 

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@rvpiano  I cant imagine having thousands of lps. Like many others, I turned to cds in '80s, '90s, '00s. TT rarely used during " kids in the house days". For good reason. After empty nest full rig came back out, made some nice upgrades and back into lps, but very picky about quality. AP, MoFi definately the best. Of about 150 lps Id say about 12% are great, 20 -30% pretty good. The rest I can tolerate after a few drinks. 

@baylinor my wife use to work for a local entertianment magazine and got free promo lps, free concert tickets, backstage passes, fun days. I was the tag along schmuck bf, but they liked talking to my cute 20 something gf :). I cant say Promo lps sound much better. Definately not as good as AP, MoFi. Im surprised thier not 180 or more gram as they were intended for rough use by radio DJs.

@bikefi10 

White promo labels were usually the first pressings after test pressings. The key is to find them NM as some DJs really handled them like trash as you say. One of my prized possession is a like new white promo label of Tommy Bolin Teaser album. Absolutely awesome sounding, and I have other copies.