... same with me - as much as i like vinyl and collecting it since many years - sometime it is also frustrating, like last night when i just wanted to relax by listening to my new purchased record: the montgomery brothers, groove yard, orig mono riverside - looks really close to near mint, but while listening pops and surface noise here and there. at this moment it really makes me unhappy and stressed me so i put on a SACD.
i have a ortofon silvermaster cartridge which is in my opinion very sensitive (sometimes too much for old jazz records, although i am only collecting ex to nm vinyl). but vinyl got soul and that's it!