I listen to all formats, including and especially vinyl. In answer to the thread's question, the first thing that comes to mind is the classic period for Matador Records, the mid-90's to early 00's. They put out a whole lot of classic albums, but most of their vinyl was notoriously and inexcusably bad until.... maybe a little less than 10 years ago they addressed the problem. So almost anything on that label at that time would have been better on CD, definitely.
The thing about vinyl is that it is totally dependent on manufacturing quality, so if that's not there it doesn't matter how well the music is engineered/mastered/etc up until that point, it's still going to sound bad. It's a fully physical medium, not just 1's and 0's that are either there to be read or they aren't. To be into vinyl, a familiarity with the different companies that produce records is kind of necessary to know what's worth the extra investment and what isn't.
Another bad example of a record that sounds worse on LP would be the Elliott Smith reissues that came out a few years ago. I love the album Figure 8, but that LP just sounds brutal. The CD is much much better. I'm sure there are many examples I could think of. Just because something is on LP doesn't automatically mean it will sound amazing. One more example would be N. American vinyl from the early 80's or so, they were recycling the vinyl at that time and it was also made overly thin, so that's an entire time period of production that would not sound great compared to a well-mastered CD re-issue.... I also find that a lot of the regular CD remasters of classic jazz that came out around the early 00's sound fantastic by any standard, so are not really trumped by some of the decent but kind of average LP pressings that have been done at various times. I could go on and on.
. I do remember that the dynamic range, clarity, and imaging on my old DQ-10 speakers just impressed the crap out of me.
