There are laser turntables for vynal. My hearing has gone too much for me to bother with it all. I buy CDs then rip them to the highest quality I can.
I have noticed though, that older CDs like Dark Side of the Moon, which is the first CD I ever bought, really need to be brought into a sound editing program to adjust levels though. Same with all my ols Police CDs. They sound like crap unless I pre-process them a little in Audacity first before converting to mp3.
All told, over time I’ve tried to move away from mp3 into FLAC (lossless), because of better quality. Most mp3 players have a peak quality level (I think it is 128 kbps), so won’t give you better sound quality from a better file.