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.. 

rman9

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.

I wouldn't overlook Mapleshade CDs. Very high quality for 16 bit format. Thanks.

Lots of classical recordings are horribly recorded, so it's the source that is the problem, not the physical media (the CD) itself.