Three best audiophile CD/LP in your collection

Can everyone share the list of the three best audiophile SACD/LP/CD from his collection regardless of genre ? IT's so difficult to find the real good sounding recording.

abronfer05-01-2010 4:05pm

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mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 22,198 posts 11-06-2010 at 04:29pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete i don't know if its the absolute best but i've been enthralled with the album "THRAK" by king crimson of late. the song "one time" in particular is a tune i can't stop listening to. i find this tune most captivatind. the vocals and playing is simply gorgeus beyond words. the live version on the kc album "electrik" is equally fine.
alpass Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 174 posts 11-07-2010 at 12:49pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Mapman i agree THRAK is awesome.my favorite KC ALBUMS ARE FROM COURT TO RED. I NOTICED WE HAVE THE SAME MUSICAL LIKES I WISH SIRIUS HAD A PROGRESSIVE ROCK STATION Al
mapman Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 22,198 posts 11-07-2010 at 05:23pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete AP, Stellar Attraction.com is a very good free progressive rock internet station.
alpass Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 174 posts 11-08-2010 at 12:22pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete thanks
poprhetor Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 61 posts 11-10-2010 at 10:47pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I'm a bit out of my depth here, since I'm new to this. I'm not quite ready to strut around calling myself an audiophile. That said, there are some recordings from my paltry collection that just sing! 1) Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" ep as covered by Swans in 1988. I read that Gira regretted doing this cover, but I love it. The beautiful acoustic strings completely upstage the arid post-punk dirge of the original. 2) I don't know how many here are open to electronic music, but Lassigue Bendthaus (Atom Hart's pet project before doing Senor Coconut) released a cover album that blows my mind: Pop Artificielle (1998). I think it would do better in high-sensitivity monitors, but my 86/dbs do a decent job. Like any well-done electronic project, there are endless details here. It may sound too pretentiously intellectual for some, but many others will just say it's stupid. ;) 3) No More Shall We Part by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Maybe I'm just a noob hipster, but I have to give credit here. Even though I'm rarely in the mood for this album (no offense, Nick, you know I love you), I can't deny the production values of anything he does. This guy has been around a long time and knows how to put it together.
podeschi Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 303 posts 04-16-2011 at 04:52pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Richard_stacy, thanks for the callout on your favorites...led me to purchase "Gene Ammons "Boss Tenor (1960)" XRCD" Awesome recommendation!
gkella Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 50 posts 04-17-2011 at 07:52pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Patricia Barber Cafe Blue Original Master Recording SACD Steely Dan Gaucho SACD Peter gabriel Shaking The Tree SACD
martykl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,578 posts 04-17-2011 at 08:50pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Here's a few on my list, Jennifer Warnes always sounds very, very good to my ear, especially on "Famous Blue Raincoat" and "The Hunter". Allen Toussaint's recent "Bright Mississippi" is a great record that sounds great, too. The Duke Ellington Small Band LPs from Pablo are generally excellent sounding and Duke's "Far East Suite" on Bluebird(?) is wondefully recorded - music for the ages, to boot. Cannonball Adderly/Nancy Wilson also scores on both counts; check out Canonball's solo on "Can't Get Started". Yet another vote for "Bookends". Okay, that's more than three.
qdrone Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,039 posts 04-18-2011 at 07:17am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hotel California / The Eagles / LP MFSL Breakfast in America / Supertramp / LP MFSL Band of Gypsies / Jimi Hendrix / LP Toshiba 1/2 speed master.
qualityrecordsshop Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1 posts 03-13-2017 at 09:18am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete My recent buys for my own personal collection and my best vinyls are: Dean Martin - Dream With Dean : The Intimate Dean Martin - 45rpm 200g 2LP Dusty Springfield - Dusty In Memphis - 45rpm 200g 2LP Hugh Masekela - Hope - 45rpm 200g 2LP Johnny Hartman - Once in Every Life - 200g LP Linda Ronstadt - What's New - 200g LP Phoebe Snow - Phoebe Snow - 45rpm 200g 2LP Sam Cooke - The Best Of Sam Cooke - 45rpm 200g 2LP Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin - 45rpm 200g 2LP Patsy Cline - Greatest Hits - 200g LP Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out - 45rpm 200g 2LP Janis Ian - Breaking Silence - 200g LP Counting Crows - August And Everything After - 45rpm 200g 2LP Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman - 200g LP Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue - 200g LP Roger Waters - Amused To Death - 200g 2LP Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms - 180g 2LP They are 100 % analogue, super hi quality natural sound. This is Audiophile vinyl, most of them are 200 gram and 45 RPM for quality improvement. The sound is astonishing. I listen to them every day and never is enough. All of them are available at my Quality Records Audiophile Vinyl e-shop as well. For the clients from Europe http://www.qualityrecords.shop/
jafant Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 19,602 posts 03-14-2017 at 11:25am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Excellent suggestions as above. Mine; Jamie Cullum- Twentysomething CD/SACD (2004) Verve Pink Floyd- DSOTM- SACD (2003) The Rolling Stones- SACD (2002)
david12 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,454 posts 05-26-2017 at 08:45pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The trouble with Audiophile recordings is, so often the music isn't up to the recording quality. My two favourites for some years, great music and recording: Sara K-Waterfalls, on the Stockfisch label, Mark Murphy-Love is What Stays, on Verve Both of them, you just know you are in for a treat, after the first few bars (Not the first track on Waterfalls, which is of a busking Sax player)
hifijunky Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 126 posts 06-09-2017 at 11:37pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Don't Smoke in Bed - Holly Cole CD Roadhouse & Auomobiles Chris Jones LP 45rpm Nightfly Donald Fagen LP
ghosthouse Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 4,306 posts 06-10-2017 at 03:28pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Great idea for a thread, so thanks to the OP, abronfer, if they’re still around. A dubious "thanks" to qualityrecordshop for resurrecting it. I won’t claim these are "audiophile" recordings in the contemporary sense; e.g., the LPs are just original or at least very early pressing vinyl. All selections have exceptional sound compared to many other recordings I own. No doubt, a few more could be added to each list, but in keeping with the OPs original idea.... LPs 1. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (especially, Private Investigations) 2. Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak 3. Stevie Ray Vaughn - Couldn’t Stand the Weather (primarily, Tin Pan Alley) CD/SACD 1. Andy Summers - Last Dance of Mr. X (HDCD) 2. Peter Gabriel - UP (SACD) 3. Steely Dan - Gaucho (SACD)
kavakat1 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 110 posts 06-10-2017 at 08:33pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Hugh Masakela- Hope
bdp24 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 9,788 posts 06-10-2017 at 11:15pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete In hopes that the request is for "good" music with great recorded sound (rather than good sound only, as found on Sheffield LP’s): For Baroque era Classical, rushton's 2010 recommendation of the Harmonia Mundi U.S.A. label is a great one. Also, Trevor Pinnock’s harpsichord recordings on the British CRD label. Startling immediacy ("in the room" sound) and transparency. Great playing, too. Then there are the recordings of local Minnesota church choirs made by speaker designer Robert Fulton, released on his ARK label. Very natural sounding, with great inner detail; you can hear each individual voice in the choir. For Pop, Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks Where’s The Money, Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book, Gordon Lightfoot’s If You Could Read My Mind (particularly "Me & Bobby McGee"), and Paul Simon’s s/t debut album.

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