High quality recordings any genre


I like all kinds of music, so give me some suggestions on some high quality recordings you listen too. I find a lot of music is poorly recorded. When you get a high quality recording listening is so much more pleasurable.

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In an optimal room/system acoustics, everything sound better because it is better perceived...I listen great musician badly recorded too ...

I am interested by the acoustic translation from the recording , good or bad... If i love some music , the sound bad sound recording does not matter anymore especially in a good system ...

it is more difficult to appreciate good music badly recorded in a bad ausio room/system than on a top audio room/system ...

Now what i said is meaningful for classical... In pop/ rock bad recordings are more than often simply put aside because of the poorness of the musical content and /or the easy availability of alternatives pop/rock albums  more well recorded with a better musical content ...

In classical, nothing will replace Sofronitsky interpretation of Scriabin or of Swzeryngk Bach less well recorded than other versions ... And sometimes even a very bad recording will be valuable because of a unique interpretation and a deep musical content ...

I need a good audio system especially to be able to hear better bad recordingsb with deep musical content ...I listen music not my system ...

 

 

 

I used Terje Wing "organism" organ music album recorded in astounding good way to test my 150 bucks active and modified speakers...This is a top audiophile recording from 2L company ... ...

I can assure you that in spite of the limitations (4 inches woofer) my speakers modifications worked so well , i fly high in sonic joy ...

it is not perfect as a 20,000 bucks speakers could be for sure, hell no, but it is balanced with beautiful timbre and the holographic soundstage encompass the listener position in my room with 50 hertz bass and no boominess at all ...( nearfield listening) ..At 150 bucks i will laugh if someone urge me to upgrade...😁😊

I am one of the few who dare to say such things in an audiophile forum where upgrading rule over creativity and low cost best S.Q./low price ratio ...😊

I must motivate people with not much money to be creative ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Mo_NwiiE8

 

 

I did not feel any problem with any recording good or less good even with not so well recorded live of jazz ,classical or Indian and Persian music or fado or any traditional recording as africa music ...

What i like as an audiophile it not so much the recording quality but the faithfull way my system translate it the best possible way be it TOP or less  and way less good one... You can say i did not listen only the music but the various acoustical takes from all recordings ...

I dislike manufactured recording of many pop rock music , but even saying this is over my head... I am not sure if i listened one hour of pop in all my life on my various systems ...

Then i spoke by youtube experience for short span of few seconds ...

I must be a musical "snob" ... I like the truth more than my appearance ...Then i speak it ...

For HIP recording ,as mahler member said it well, this did not matter as it once did, and this increased in quality a lot ... Even my Bach Hogwood brandenburg favorite version may suffer at some moment of squeaking sounds from ancient instruments ... Anyway Hogwood is a genius in my book and to this Bach i will add his stunning Mozart Requiem my favorite version by far so different than the Bohm version i like also ...

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My favorite audiophile album is Kurt Weil three penny opera with Lotte Lenya...

but i appreciated it more in my last acoustic room because the sound was surrounding me totally as if i was on the theater with the singers not in front of speakers  at all but around me and even in my back ..

But my actual acoustic corner with way smaller speakers in nearfield listening cannot do this even if the soundstage is stunning out of the speakers plane  .. I did not had a foldable screen now  as a sound focussing lense and 100 Hemlhotz resonators in the room  to do the job anymore ...

My actual soundfield  compensate by  more clarity of sound because my last big speakers were older ... And my main system is headphone ,which so good they are and they are, cannot beat a totally ccontrolled room like i had ...But they had an advantage : the timbre experience is natural in such a way it compensate and anyway the soundfield seems out of my head then ... 😁

My actual small low cost active speakers beat all headphones i ever own by a great margin save the AKG K340 because of his realistic timbre and more deep bass and out of the head soundfield impression in variable degree according to the recordings takes and trade-off ...

 

Many Classical, acoustic Jazz, Jazz vocal and Jazz fusion are well recorded, it’s within the popular music genre where most of the SQ issues occur.