Whats on your turntable tonight?

Hi Dayglow
Like many 1-5 scales yours only uses 3.9-5
You say "Its a grading scale of 5"   No, it's 4-5.  It's compressed.

Why do you all allocate 0-3.9 for unacceptable SQ but only 4-5 for acceptable?  How many grades of unacceptable do you think there are?

I grade vinyl 1-10, including noise, because noise that doesn't respond to cleaning is part of the listening experience.
True I don't give many 1s - I bin them.  3 is noisy as well as poor SQ.  Most of my LPs are 5 thru 8.
Out of ~3000 discs I have awarded an exceptional 9.9 to about a dozen.  Nothing can be perfect.

Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two - Original Golden Hits Volume II

Had CD, bought the LP version of Betty Carter 'Finally', the whole thing an all time favorite.

https://www.discogs.com/Betty-Carter-Finally/master/404885

Amazing version of 'Body and Soul', features Bass Player Lisle Atkinson. Had to get me some Lisle

https://www.discogs.com/sell/order/3064922-12135

Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two -  Story Songs Of The Trains And Rivers, bootleg Taiwan pressing.

Hi clearthinker thanks for responding. Yes having a 0-5 scale is slighly compressed but only because many recordings fall in a very narrow window of sound quality(3.8-4,4) which gives 1/10 a point great significance. Unacceptable is 3.9 or < as was posted. Theoretically a record could rate a 1 but being an audiophile more then a collector my scale is biased towards audiophiles. A poor sounding damaged record would never be in my collection or many others. The lowest rated record(non damaged} so far has been 3.4 due only for sound quality. On the other end of the spectrum two recordings so far have received a 4,8 a Sheffield Labs/Harry James LAB 11 and a Mercury/Balalaika SR 90310. I do agree with you that nothing can be a 10 or 5(my scale) but I could run across a 4.9 I have played(graded) about 45% of my vinyl collection which contains around 1400 albums. In conclusion I do place more value between 4-5 on my scale because that is where a majority of modern vinyl resides, so yes its skewed but not misleading.