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Re:Manufacturing plant fire threatens worldwide vinyl record... by ScottBurson on Saturday February 08, 2020 @05:25AM (#22275063)
Beats me. I still have a collection of LPs I bought in the 1970s and early 80s, and while many of them are pretty good pressings and I don't mind listening to them, some are pretty bad. I have a lot more CDs, and they almost all sound very good to excellent (any defects being in the master, not the medium, of course).

What I do get nostalgic for is music without compression. So many recent recordings I find unlistenable, even when I like the music, because they're compressed to within a dB of their lives. This is a much bigger deal to me than digital vs. analog.

Re:Manufacturing plant fire threatens worldwide vinyl record... by criddell on Saturday February 08, 2020 @03:19PM (#22278083)
There were a lot of very low quality records made during the late 70's and 80's. Poor quality vinyl and increased track density were the main culprits.