Back when everone and their mother were downoading ‘free’ music off of Napster, I heard some transfers from vinyl that sounded absolutely terrible. It pretty much ended my thoughts about investing in the equipment to convert my 800 + LP’s to a digital format.
A bottle of Windex and soft towel do wonders for those older LP’s that are found in the bargain bin and have alot of surface grime and dust. Even with a few scratches, some of these gems sound wonderful if you have a semi-decent turntable hooked up to a semi-decent sound system.
(Sorry, I love the sound of vinyl!)
I didn’t invest any money except for some software. That may be the problem, my sound card may not have had good AD hardware.
Anyway, my newer music is on CD which sounds fine to me and when I want to listen to the older stuff, I pull out the turntable. I have a spare turntable and stylus just in case.
I now have a stack of CD’s that I made that I never listen to.