Is there somewhere I can check vinyl sound quality?

@ochremoon

Thank you so much for the http://hisonvinyl.com/ info! This is exactly what I am looking for!

I did try the Steve Hoffman but OMG. I really get lost in pages and pages of post. And at the end I wasn’t sure whether or not certain records are worth buying.

I did a search for "Kind of Blue" and it yielded 5 results in seconds http://hisonvinyl.com/?s=Kind+of+blue. This is great!  How It Sound on Vinyl provides a quick search and I like that easy to find factor....

Yes, they looked like they are quite new and hopefully they will grow as I find it useful. I hope some of you too. Although Steve Hoffman seems to have more albums I can find but so unorganised and a pain to read through everything. And they have much longer history. Interesting to see how it goes for how it sounds in a few years! :)

@ochremoon

+1 thanks for sharing info on the HIS site. Makes it really easy to use their info in conjunction with Acoustic Sounds ... since AS classifies by genre, artist, and label. I quickly located a specific highly rated hisonvinyl recommendation.

Perhaps it's still a work in progress; but the only real drawback is limited coverage. Sure you get 5 results for Miles; but entering search terms like  "Hancock", "Coltrane", "Blakey", or "Evans" yields no results.   

I have quite a few Japanese reissues of American jazz albums. While I agree that the Japanese albums have superior vinyl and are very quiet, I find them a bit dull and rolled off on the top end compared with the originals I have. Same thing for every Mosaic reissue I have too. 

I agree with paraneer and with fjn04. Good old records in their original pressings are the best. Most reissues disappoint me.

For classical music I would suggest also that you go to a used bookstore and find an old Penguin Guide, old enough so that most of its recommendations are in vinyl. It will not cost much. It’s not the last word on performance or sound, but it is a very good beginning.

You could also check out the good sounding vinyl record lists at the Absolute Sound’s Super LP List, at Arthur Salvatore’s high-endaudio.com and at Stereophile’s annual R2D4 posted on its web site.

The easiest way to sort through the thicket is to pick music you like and then do a little research on best pressings of particular albums. Many of the "audiophile" lists place sound quality first--no surprise- but the music may or may not be to your liking. 
A lot of the discussion on the Hoffman forum is devoted to comparing different masterings, which may involve different source material. There is no real rule of thumb-- I can stack up 10 different pressings of the same album and each has different strengths and weaknesses. 
If you are after rock records and are on a budget, the old Warner "green label" (followed by the Burbank 'palm trees' label) had some great artists and superb recordings--these are common "bin" records in used record stores and can also be found online fairly cheaply.
The easiest way to use Hoffman's site is to pick a band or album title and do a browser search for "best vinyl pressing of X." You will likely get some search engine hits from the Hoffman site. The most informative threads are those that compare the merits of different pressings rather than ones that have conclusory statements about a single "best" pressing. 
One tell-tale is often the identity of the mastering engineer; another is the pressing plant. These are discerned from inscriptions in the deadwax on the record. Learning to decode this stuff is a little like reading hieroglyphics, but once you've spent a little time with this kind of detail, you'll be pretty comfortable knowing what to look for. For certain albums, there are "known" good pressings. 
My experience, making direct comparisons of different pressings of the same album, is that there is no easy to follow general rule that is entirely predictive of sonics. So much depends on the original recording, then mastering, the plant and condition of the particular copy as well as your sonic preferences and system bias. I have also found that later issues of particular record can sound better than first pressings, but it is really record by record.