"Those must be the ones that are not warped and do not have a lot of surface noise that many new record buyers these days seem to complain about."
Some new vinyl does have that problem. For example, spent $50 on a great Ray Brown 45 recently, did not notice till I opened it after several weeks that one side of record one is 1/4" higher than the other. Amazing part is it still sounds great.
One example off the top of my head of something digitally mastered that sounds like CD is Tigerlily (Merchant).
(I am assuming it was digitally mastered - if not I am going to look stupid.)
Both versions sound quite good but I am hard-pressed to prefer the vinyl.
Some new vinyl does have that problem. For example, spent $50 on a great Ray Brown 45 recently, did not notice till I opened it after several weeks that one side of record one is 1/4" higher than the other. Amazing part is it still sounds great.
One example off the top of my head of something digitally mastered that sounds like CD is Tigerlily (Merchant).
(I am assuming it was digitally mastered - if not I am going to look stupid.)
Both versions sound quite good but I am hard-pressed to prefer the vinyl.