Sound quality of new vinyl recordings.

@grislybutter 

Sorry. I read 6 " as 6 inch.  My mistake!

I am lucky and have nearly all the 60s Beatles LPs as original UK pressings.  They are mostly good, but the MoFi are a noticeable improvment.  I only have three of those.

I would like to buy the earlier Stones albums too, but everyone knows they're good and I won't pay the price.

I bought a Connoisseur turntable kit in 1969, £8.99 as I recall and a second hand SME 12 inch, only about £12 - wow..  I built a wooden plinth.  I sold the SME about 30 years ago for £65, to a Japanese, and they are hundreds and hundreds now.  When my father died 10 years ago, I sold his 9 inch SME for nearly £200.  He still had the Lenco and I gave it to a thrift shop.

@clearthinker

wow, lots of great antique turntables!

one more funny story: we grew up on a book called the Beatles Bible. It was written by an English professor who was allowed to travel to the West so he must have had "information".

I read it probably more than 5 times. It was about the Beatles, chronologically, their story with a lot of interviews and quotes.

It turns out, half of it was made up, most facts were questionable. The dude could write anything, nobody would know. How weird!

@randym860 - there are a lot of good turntables in your price range; I've got a Technics SL-1200G that's right in there and I've been very happy with it.... 

I recently got back to vinyl and have been buying a lot of new records. Most of the are 180g, some are 45RMP and UHQR. They are as good as it gets for re-issue albums. I m spending more time listening to Vinyls CD/SACD nowadays. 

Late to the party, but I did want to share :

I just bought a bunch of Diana Krall 45 RPM LPs. The first one that I listened to was  "Live in Paris". I was deeply disappointed. The album sounds so much better in the standard 33 rpm fromat. The 45 rpm pressing is overly bright and analytical.

Dire Straits "Brothers in Arms" 45 RPM  version does sound superb compared to the standard format.

Not sure how to distinguish a good 45 RPM LP from a not so good one. Clearly every 45 RPM, 180 grams LP is not necessarily better sounding.