Done buying new vinyl

Most of the jazz reissues from Fantasy are really good reissues, especially the one they did of the Contemporary recordings. Here's some examples of outstanding reissues:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HAROLD-LAND-In-The-Land-Of-Jazz-LP-on-Contemporary-ojc/332537985249?hash=it...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/HAROLD-LAND-The-Fox-LP-on-Contemporary-ojc/332537986584?hash=item4d6ccefe18...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Cannonball-Adderley-Know-What-I-Mean-Vinyl-New/361806507476?epid=112482247&...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Music-of-BOB-COOPER-Frank-Rosolino-Mel-Lewis-Victor-Feldman-Lou-Levy-LP/362...

Frank

Appreciate this thread. I recently bought a $2500 DAC to bring my digital up to par with my analog and what I’m discovering is that the DAC sounds so good with redbook CDs that I’m in this prolonged evaluation process to determine which albums are better on vinyl vs CD. What that’s meaning to me so far is that other than my high end jazz (original 50s and 60s pressings, Music Matters, Analogue Productions, MoFi etc), I’m hanging onto vinyl only if pressings are OOP/collectible or only available in that format. Improvements in DAC technology is really exposing mass-produced vinyl to be a fad/fraud if you ask me. And, believe me, I didn’t want that to be true.

YMMV. But that’s where I’m at with it.

@therobert: Whole-heartedly agree on the Welch. That’s a brilliant pressing. But note the lengths they went to make that happen.

Revisiting this to add that I've bought about 20 new LPs since and quality has improved across the board. Most are not late-50s-70s-analog gems but the vinyl is quiet enough and clarity has improved.