Annoying trend? New vinyl equalization and compression

I doubt that Technics is selling all their new turntables to just the high end market.

When we were mastering LPs for a digital source file, we would try to make sure that the file had no DSP other than normalization. In that way we could master an LP that had greater dynamic punch than the digital master. I know we were not the only mastering house doing that! Since the digital release is often thought to be played in a car, there is a tendency to compress it. LPs of course have no such expectation.

Irony is still in. If you want the most dynamic range out of a recording you stand a better chance getting it with the LP rather than the digital release simply on this account.

@atmasphere 

Columbia records classical division used to master records in the sixties with the expectation that they would be listened to on AM Radio

@mahler123 

The radio stations have their own compression they've used for decades, even back in the 1960s.  I don't doubt Colombia was using compression though. I was commenting on much more recent releases.

Some of Hollywood released Queen vinyls aren’t just dynamically compressed , they sound like they used low but bit MP3’s as masters!

Well, there is vinyl and then there is vinyl. Always has been.  But of all my recent buys of both old and new music, some sound like a bumpy noisy thing with no range and can be even off center (but clear or colored WOOO!!!) and the others - usually the solid colored vinyl blow my socks off. But still, they are almost all better than CDs, at least for me on my system. 

But my recent purchase of the Pachinko soundtrack  (clear vinyl - how do they do that?) is so bad that it's going back.   

So yes, some sound like they were cut from redbook CD bit rates but others are amazing.  I see no trend.