Rediscovering records

@oddiofyl 

Well played. I wish I’d had your good sense and not sold my vinyl records five years ago. You can always buy a new turntable, but record collections take years to build up. 

in my defence, I was quite ill at the time and moving to a smaller house. On the bright side, it’s fun acquiring them and I can be more selective this time.

In a year, I already have more than enough to play.

@sns 

Based on my experience no single system does all genres equally. 

This is more about personal tastes than anything. That's absolutely fine, but any genre of music will sound better on a better system. Qualities like less noise and distortion, deeper bass, imaging, etc. are universal.

Inconsistency in pressings has always been a problem. Be it classical or rock or jazz. Much better luck with digital in most cases.
But when you have a good pressing it sounds good. I have the original DG Brahms and Beethoven symphonies box sets with Karajan and they sound great. To me these are exceptions, not the rule. You have to research what pressing to get irrespective of genre. There’s a lot of garbage circulating on a new and used vinyl market. 
All the bad or mediocre sounding records…when you come across one in your collection, sell it. With high quality streaming setup in your system it’s hardly worth a bother. 

I thought this post was all about vinyl?

Read the question.

Best practice is to keep the discussion pure, unpolluted with other formats?

”Rediscovering records” is brief enough to avoid misunderstanding.

@audphile1 

​​​​​​Frustration with poor quality used vinyl overrated by sellers was one of the reasons that I got out of vinyl a few years ago. Also, some remastering is poor. You do have to be selective. However, pressings seem to be more consistent these days. Phil Hobbs of Linn Records said recently that plants are getting better at using the correct temperatures.

@rvpiano 

I totally agree about turntable upgrades taking vinyl to a whole new level. That's one of the reasons I got back into vinyl last year with a much upgraded version of the same model that I had before (bearing, power supply and phono stage). I am getting more out of it now. It has become my main source again.