I used to spend a lot on special pressings - heavy black vinyl, moving coil cartridges, mono amps etc etc. And I could hear the difference. Certain pressings, for example Sheffield Steel, by Joe Cocker, could not be beaten by CD. I guess some of this is down to AAA, AAD, ADD or DDD. Bop Til You Drop by Ry Cooder was one of the first DDD - and it showed.
Yes, I had a few special pressings. I had a couple of Rickie Lee Jones albums that sounded awesome through my fairly modest Planar 3 / AR60 / Acoustic Research set up. And Bop Till You Drop was definitely weird-sounding, wasn't it?
