Excellent sounding LPs

@rvpiano  “There’s more gold in listening to the music”

Searching for the Eldorado in your own music

l have personally learned not to beat myself up trying to drag out that last ounce of musicality from my system. Never ending changes make differences, but I’ve now accepted the fact, too much is bordering OCD land rather than entering Utopia. 
 

When listening and choosing what LP to put on l know from memory what to expect with the recording. However it does not influence me to play albums just because of a brilliant recording. It’s how l appreciate the content that matters, and what has motivated me to play that music again.

LP pressings quality and original recordings are beyond our control. Best to try and put those concerns to the back of our minds…..
 

Ah, interesting topic. From experience, certain labels / recording engineers could be relied on for Hi Fi sound. Blue Note, Mercury Living Presence to name a few. That said in my collection many Pop and Rock records were crap shoots. I found first press UK for the UK artists "generally best" also German Pressings. But not all the time! I own a David B record US dyna flex that sounds GREAT. Go figure. Reissues? Touch and go; although I do like quite a few of Kevin Gray's offerings (although not all) 

To be honest, I’m too much of an audiophile to ignore the SQ of the recordings completely.  A combination of listening for music and sound is, for better or worse, my quest.  Of course, extraordinary performances in not so good sound demand attention.

However done buying vinyl now. Lucky I started decades ago, prices have gone through the roof.

this is incorrect. Adjusted for inflation, new releases are no more expensive than they were 50-60 years ago.

this is incorrect. Adjusted for inflation, new releases are no more expensive than they were 50-60 years ago.

True, but for some of the boutique audiophile reissues (UHQR, One-Step, ERC, etc) the prices are really kinda nuts. Standard reissues like Tone Poet Blue Note, Craft OJC, DG The Original Source series, etc are more reasonable. 

I can buy nearly 5 Tone Poet releases for the cost of a UHQR 45 shipped from Acoustic Sounds (and I prefer 33 RPM anyway).