Golden age of vinyl recordings?

When I bought my Klipsch Heresy III speakers last year there was a "free album" offer sticker on the boxes. One per speaker...so I went to the Klipsch site and wound up with 2 10" 33rpm mono albums, one of early Monk, and a Miles Davis thing...AMAZING quality things that sound so good in all ways (even with my stereo phono cartridge) that it blew my little mind. If anybody needs to see where Jazz went, listen to people like Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn, and many many more current geniuses...it's alive and well.

Tube equipment certainly isn’t going to be extinct any time soon...sales of tube guitar amps far outnumber tube home audio stuff...maybe 100 to 1 (possibly much more), and tape decks are having a revival including cassettes, although those might be a fad. Updated and newly designed reel to reel decks are basically state of the art for playback these days. Regarding post ’68 vinyl, I have a lot of amazing stuff from the 60s to current production that sounds astonishingly good, and to think otherwise is weirdly narrow and ignores the astonishing revival of great vinyl, thousands of great recordings, and the brilliant engineers and mastering pros who make it happen.