My son and his girlfriend are around 40 and have one of those junk suitcase players. She is so proud of the expensive lps that they buy from Barnes and Noble. One time I couldn’t refrain from expressing my true feelings instead of just politely sitting through the sonic dreck and she hasn’t spoken to me since (yes, there were other issues, this seems to have been the straw).
Are 90% of new lps being played back on such systems? And is compression being used to accommodate them? I listen primarily to Classical so I am out of touch as to what transpires in other genres. One never sees the Audiophile press, when they crow about the triumph of vinyl over CD, mention any of this. They assume that all purchasers are connoisseurs such as inhabit this site, not the gullible