Can anything be down about this? There must be an agenda!

In the analog age, original master tape recordings were 16bit/48 kHz. Vinyl LPs were pressed from these sources. I record all my computer audio files as DSD or AIFF at 16bit/48 kHz and they all sound fabulous via a good DAC. So, if you want hear the sound as it was in the recording studio,  such audio files are IMHO the best for audio reproduction and listening pleasure. 

It was worse at the introduction of digital where unforgiving brightness and loss of bass were explained away as the fault of the playback hardware.The upside is the availability of albums which had been deleted from pressing long ago

A secret meeting was held on Jeckyl Island in which the titans of the music industry agreed to keep secret the details of how to make perfect digital. They all knew the key to long term profits was to slowly and gradually year by year go from absolute crap to slightly less absolute crap. Occasionally one will get out ahead of the others and come up with something only moderately crappy and when this happens they charge an arm and a leg. Which is cheap, because they all know if the secret ever gets out it will cost them their heads.

So that is what they have been doing for 30 years now. Analysts keep saying this cannot go on forever that people will figure out there's no there there. But so far even Michael Fremer literally saying there's no there there hasn't done anything, so it would appear the scam can continue on for quite some time.

I have it on good authority the code for perfect digital is stored in Al Capones vault, right along side the recipe for Coca-Cola. 

Absolutely nothing to do with digital or analog. And WTF does first press have to do with compression/limiting?
There are plug ins like Re Life but they only improve, not mitigate.

Unless they have clipped it it should be fairly easy to improve it if you can create filters or make a program that fixes wav- or flac-files. You might not get the exact original waveform back but something that pleases your ears more.

Have you tried searching for one?