• Everything before digital recordings started to be the norm (mid/late 80s? ABBA started to record digitally in the late 70s, I think). They don't sound better when pressed on vinyl in my opinion. It's great analogue recordings I love. There are loads that aren't very good at all, but the best examples are just wonderful. My copy of Transformer still blows me away. I have no idea if it's an original pressing, but it is American, claims it is 1972 and has a fantastic sound. I don't even like much of the record that much, but the sound is so full that no digital recording I've ever heard can compete in my ears.

    No, ABBA didn't record digitally in the late 70s, nobody did. Tape was the prevalent medium until the mid-90s, when DAT and ADAT started to come in, but even then most top-end studios continued to use tape, many still do today.
    What you love is probably nothing to do with the 'recording' medium per se, but has more to do with the production, the mix , the mastering and the pressing of the vinyl. the latter is probably the least significant factor, by some distance.
    some records just sound better than others, and there are certainly 'digital' recordings ( although that phrase is hard to define: very few recordings are totally digital) that will sound bigger, fuller and warmer than so called 'analogue' recordings.
    Without an in-depth knowledge of record production as well as recording technology it's pretty foolish for anyone to make pronouncements as to why one record sounds better than another - there are a great many factors, and in my experience it tends to be the talent of the artist and producer that makes the biggest difference sonically.

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