There is this totally false notion that records are the holy grail of good sound.
No and no. Record sound quality is all over the place just like all the rest. Some recordings are good and many are not. Some records are physically of good quality and some are not. Some are in good shape and some are warped and or have groove damage.
It’s literally all over the place .
The best sounding records overall are those from the golden age circa ~1955 into the 60s. This was the golden age because hifi recordings were new and novel and the manufacturers competed to deliver good sound accordingly. Then it went mostly down hill from there where good quality recordings become harder to find.
Finally you have the “vinyl renaissance” in recent years where people got hoodwinked into buying newer recordings that are totally digitally produced with the marketing spin that oh hey it’s a record and records sound better .
Again No and no. Records make a nice package but that’s it. They do not make digitally remastered recordings sound better because they are now records. All you get is a higher noise floor, pops clicks and other forms of noise and distortion in most cases.
I read something recently that more people who buy new records have nothing to play them with than those who do. They buy records to own them but not to listen to them. Who wants to deal with all that when modern day streaming does it all?
I still buy records, mainly on the cheap when opportunity knocks , because I have a large collection to start with and I like records. But I hardly ever play them anymore. When I do they get a thorough cleaning and go straight to my digital library to stream.