Best Audiophile Album in terms of Dynamic Range and Mastering Quality?


This seems like a good list: https://www.headphonesty.com/2025/04/audiophile-albums-show-off-systems/

but most of them were released more than a decade ago. Are there really no new albums that can match them?

tippydi

Edgar Meyer, Christian McBride But Who's Gonna Play The Melody? 2024 - nice recording.

Probably something from David Chesky. His new audiophile masters stuff probably too.

I own 27 of the albums on the list. There is good stuff there. If you are looking for more modern albums with excellent sq, mastering, dr, etc. check out recordings by Radiohead, Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish, Tool, Dominique Fils-Aime, Raye

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@emergingsoul 

Generally the great recordings carry over to streaming. I have an extensive vinyl library with a lot of audiophile and well recorded albums When I listen to one of those, thinking they will outperform my streamer (I have a very good streamer), first, typically there is usually a red book and a high resolution version available on streaming. Second, they usually they sound the same. However, sometime the streaming version sound a little better and sometimes the vinyl sound a little better. I have come to believe that there is a lot of variation in the vinyl (even with really good recordings) because the molds that they are using to create the vinyl version wear out... pretty quickly. So the first few hundred or thousand sound much better than later pressings. Several of my audiophile friends have confirmed this through there own observations as well.