LP's... Do they sound better now than 30 yrs ago?

Good recorded vintage LPs sounds amazing, it depends on the pressing quality and your equipment. Thickness of records means nothing to me, some of the 180g reissues remastered NOT from the original tapes, but from digital source, often overcompressed, and not suppass the good old original pressing. There are exceptions of course. In other words there is nothing wrong with the old records and nothing to surpass, really. Those fancy audiophile pressings are very expensive for modern LPs, you can not buy everything on virgin vinyl pressed in Japan. You’d better think about the cartridge/turntable and the whole system instead. 

Most of my records are original US pressing and i have never had any problems if the condition if fine. What i can say for sure is that the Japanese pressing from the 70s is superb. Pallas pressing plant in Germany is fine for new releases, but United pressing plant in US is also fine. I bought that Doors LPs from Analogue Production and they are fine, but that’s the only one rock band i used to listen in high school, bought it for curiosity to check what is an audiophile pressing @devilscucumber Some of my farovite records from the 70s are much better engineered, especially those library LPs recorded to use in cinema and on tv (mostly mid 70s jazz-funk stuff) and pressen on normal vinyl in USA and in UK, so i do not support that hype about audiophile reissues for the prices they are asking for.

@snackeyp

When I play an original from the 70’s it sounds nowhere near as good as its reissue (in many cases).

My experience is totally different. Prefer the original 70s pressing if the reissue is not from the master tape, also depends on who does the remastering for the reissue and where it was pressed today. If we will exclude the very famous artists released on big labels (and reissued by big labels) we will find that some of the obscure artrists nowadays reissued by the small companies that are not technically advanced and noboby really cares about the sound quality that much, the source for reissue of obscure bands is ofter an old vinyl digitalized with average cartridge, then compressed digitally and pressed again on the vinyl in 1000 copies. Same with the 7inch reissues on 45rpm vinyl, original pressings always better. Only big labels can taking care of the top quality reissue if they are planning to sell them in many thousand copies. But hey, what about those unknown releases with great music?