Can we list the better labels? Chesky? Telarc?

Some of the small, boutique labels are good, too, like Sundazed Music, Four Men with Beards, First Impression, and Groove Note.

As you mention Blue note, Chesky, and Telarc I assume you're taking about mostly Jazz. If so, Concord Jazz has consistenly good sound and artists as well and a lot of Verve (but not all by some margin).

If you're into classical some of the best labels for sound are Hyperion, Harmonia Mundi, Chandos, Delos, Dorian, Reference Recordings, and Telarc. EMI can be excellent as can London/Decca. For Eastern European music, Supraphon and anything with the Czech Phil. :-)

Sheffield Lab (sheffieldlab.com), Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab (www.mofi.com).

EMI for conistently remarkable programming.

Whoops, I meant ECM! Well, I got the "E" right!

Marco

I've found the Speakers Corner reissues to be consistently good.
-Carl