Bought virgin vinyl, half-speed mastered Japanese pressings of 1970s classics back in the day. Still unopened cello-wrap. Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd and so forth. Of course then I couldn't forese the advent of streaming, so LP/CD play is rare around here these days, which is why these oldies are still pure mint. Now, would they sound better than remastered on Tidal? Depends on which aspect of which cut you're focused on. The remasters often get the balance all wrong: not wrong just because it's different, but wrong because they have no clue what effect (Christine McVie via Keith Olson, let's say) were rightly aiming for. On the other hand, remasters do extend and clarify the bottom end, often with a sacrifice of the the priceless delicacies. On balance, I'd go with my mint condition oldies, given the right "Mag-Lev," per @noromance, to play them on.
Sorry, the point was value appreciation. So when I abandon this dystopian third-world polis of ours for somewhere vaguely civilized, should any such still exist and be willing to accept us white American equivalents of "Mexican rapists," my U.S. estate auctioneer will be given detailed instructions on how and where to market the audio media and electronic gear.
