Your system quality vs. recording quality

I do not have that problem i have at least 3 thousand classical records that sound wonderful.Among then EMI,DECCA,MERCURY,BRITISH COLUMBIA ETC.Been collecting records for over 50 years.

Well, two things. One, there are no recordings suddenly revealed to be bad by your system getting better. Mine's crazy better- and so are all my recordings. Records once though to be very run of the mill I would now have no reservations playing to impress any guest. 

And two, that's not to say they're all equally good. Its more like, when your system is truly revealing then all recordings sound great- and the ones you thought were great turn out to be downright magical.

Recordings are what they are. The big audiophile money hole is thinking the right system will make everything sound wonderful. It won’t. It can only give you more of what’s there and what’s there can vary from horrific to mesmerizing.   If most recordings make you want to listen more and not chase you away then you are in good territory. 

After listening to speakers with different dispersion patterns I'm fairly convinced that some recordings sound better with a narrower dispersion speaker, or a highly absorptive, well damped space. Other recordings seem to benefit from more ambience in the listening space. I also think it is possible for a more revealing system to make a recording that you used to like seem less enjoyable. Some recordings seem to sound no better through exotic speakers than through an old transistor table top radio. On a good system the contrast in sound quality between recordings is more striking, upping expectations and making low quality recordings more disappointing. You can't even tell stereo from mono recordings on a limited frequency response table top radio.