Sound quality of new vinyl recordings.

Make your research every time you buying new album. Lots of modern LPs recorded from digital masters and honest labels don’t hide this fact marking their albums with corresponding sign on the album sleeve, however some are try to scam saying nothing or lie that record made from analog masters. 
 

It's a crap shoot. But on average analog originals from the 60s and 70s are superior. The majority of the recent pressings is mediocre at best. Not specifically because they are from digital sources rather than analog, but because the pressings themselves often result in way too many imperfections which renders the listening experience a pain. By example, the last Steven Wilson vinyl was pressed in Czechoslovakia and has so many pressing issues I had to buy a Italian CD pressing to be able to appreciate it. Sad.

Yes, it is variable. Even within audiophile pressings.

I am currently listening to a 1958 RCA Living Stereo recording. I just forget how good the recordings and pressings were in the late ‘50’s. The audiophile versions cut twenty+ years ago can be superb. In between playing one. I didn’t realize it was a 50’s recording when I put it on… it quickly became obvious it

Actually, it is the opposite story from the CD.