1985-89 is about correct , analog and digital has to be mixed and mastered differently , the lazy way was Digital mix Master and then transferred to LP by the then diminishing pressing plants ..
A $1000 plug and play turntable will blow away a SOTA digital source with most AAA records. It's not that Digital is crap, it's that most digital transfers are crap. This of course is only according to what I hear, you may hear it very differently.