@soix I have almost 61,100 LPs/CDs/78s some R2R and some cassettes
I kept pursuing better quality audio equipment that allows me to enjoy more of my lesser sonic quality recordings, from the acoustic era (Pre-1925) to the current digital recording era. As an amateur singer and recording engineer, I've sung and recorded 1000s of performances from Disney Hall to Royce Hall to Ford Ampitheater to many synagogues and churches. If a recording (music in particular) doesn't meet with my approval, I dispose of it (18,000 to date, 10,000 more probably). I've upgraded up system to the point where a greatly over reverberant, shallow, greyish sounding modern recording will more likely be tossed as it would sound even worse or terrible on lesser equipment. I may have tossed some lesser sonic quality recordings in the past 6 decades that could sound perfectly fine today. See my equipment for why I treasure so many great to even sonically mediocre recordings.