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Underrated album: Sonics AND Music

Listening to this CD this evening it struck me that this might be the most underrated CD I have, from both a sonics and music point of view. I bet everyone has a go-to album that needs more respect.  Mine: Rosanne Cash— Rules of Travel. 
tomaswv
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bdp24
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Terry Evans: any of his albums on Audioquest. Also his two albums with partner Bobby King on Rounder Records, a non-audiophile label with many audiophile-sound quality albums in it's catalog. Terry and Bobby served as Ry Cooder's "back up" singers for years, and are both fantastic.

Speaking of Ry, his sideman guitarist (lap steel, mostly) David Lindley's first two albums are very cool, and feature great sound. I have used a 12" 45 of "Mercury Blues" I own as demo material for years.

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rocketroom
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Ingenue by kd Lang. The new anniversary remaster in hd is stunning. The kd and Ben Mink team are totally underrated.

John Mayer Continum’s hi res sonics blew me away the other day too.

Los Libos Kiko is also an underrated masterpiece. Michell Froom goes outside the box sonically and goes into those nooks and crannies and delivered an album that is anything but ordinary. Sick of the same ol pop/rock songs? Take this one for a spin... Los Lobos sadly got tagged as a cheesy La Bamba cover band. This album demonstrates they are not... instead, a world class ensemble worthy of the best an audiophile can expect. Completely underrated is truly an understatement here.

My gear: Emm Labs transport-converters-pre/Genelec/Primaluna/B&W etc.
jthifi
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Great thread! I'm glad I stumbled on to it. I look forward to checking out all these suggestions. I've gotten to the point that I stream Tidal about 95% of the time but hopefully, the SQ from the production\engineering will show through streaming these. One of my favorite albums that is CD quality on Tidal but just sounds great on my system is the Blue Coast Collection: The E.S.E. Sessions - Various artists. Love The Dog Song!
gpgr4blu
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Agree on all 3 points with Rocketroom. 3 demonstration quality albums with great sonics. Los Lobos Kiko on mobile fidelity master recording vinyl is one of my favorite albums, musically and sonically.
sammmmmmy
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I don't care about sonics.

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Not sure if you can call a well-known band like Golden Earring under-rated.
Its just that I only recently  heard "To The Hilt" album. (For decades I was under the impression that all their lps after "Moontan" were sub-par.)

Pleasant surprize!
Fabulous rhythm guitar throughout. Longer tracks. And the addition of Jan Stipps (Supersister) makes this their only prog-tinged lp.

Probably my discovery of the year - and its  a bleeding common lp!
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