High quality CDs


Where can I find CDs with high quality recording, specifically classical.. More than 50% of the CDs that I buy with classical music, sounds so anemic and noisy when you crank up. Any suggestions will be really helpful. I prefer physical format over streaming.. 

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I'm mostly familiar with ECM from their jazz offerings, but Manfred Eicher is legendary for spending an hour and a half positioning a single microphone to record Keith Jarrett.  Their early recordings of artists like Keith, Chick Corea, Ralph Towner, Egberto Gismonti, & Jan Garbarek are among the most important reasons I began this pursuit.  More important than the fabulous sound quality, the music itself ranges so far & wide that neojazzical seems a more appropriate label.

Naxos is another label with range, but with a focus on classical.  Within that genre, they produce a quality discount product while still being able to go outside the "standards" repertoire, recording with less well known conductors, orchestras, & soloists.  Of course, being less known is not the same as being less.  Their success has demonstrated that, for both the music and the musicians.