What CDs to buy

Here’s a great sounding CD; whether or not you are interested n the music is a different matter:

Country Hits...Feeling Blue by Tennessee Ernie Ford. Songs by Hank Williams, Willie Nelson, Don Gibson, and Fred Rose. Swinging guitar by Billy Strange, upright bass by John Mosher. Fantastic audiophile-quality recorded sound. The original Capitol Records LP has been considered a super disc for years (I have a copy), and Analogue Productions has received raves for the their LP reissue of the album from reviewers the world over.

Remastered to DSD (the disc is an SACD hybrid) from the original analogue master tapes by Kevin Gray, manufactured by (or for) Analogue Productions, distributed by Acoustic Sounds (AP’s distribution arm). If you spend $50 or more, shipping from AS is free. Just add a copy of either Tea For The Tillerman by Cat Stevens (one of the best sounding recordings in the entire history of recorded music) or Dusty In Memphis by Ms. Springfield (ditto). Both reissued by Analogue Productions, imo (and that of many others) THE music reissue company.

Thanks for the suggestions! Yeah, I like Wynette and Springfield.... and of course Emmylou Harris, Cowgirls Prayer and Wrecking Ball, for example.

I’ll check out the TEF suggestion too.

Great music and excellent recordings can be found on Stockfisch Records. Sara k. is fantastic.

@grislybutter are you looking for new recommendations, music you don’t know?

That would be ideal, I am mainly looking to explore what the format can bring to my system as I haven't listened to CDs in about 20 years.  The CD player primarily serves as my DAC.

@espilka 

Thanks for the suggestions, I will check out these albums as I don't have them on vinyl.

@bdp24 

Thanks for the ideas....from your earlier post it didn't seem that you understood my objective.  CDs are new to my world since becoming an audiophile with a true hi-fi system.  I suppose I do have expectation that the SQ from CDs will exceed streaming.  I have a few hundred CDs from my collections from 30 years ago and have not heard an appreciable difference in comparing several of them to Qobuz.

A lot of great suggestions.  One I haven't seen....Arista GRP.  One of the pioneers of CD digital mastering.  Some of the early stuff was done with JVC Japan.  Always sounds amazing and I'll buy any I see at the Goodwill if I'm browsing for CDs.  Great Jazz catalog!

A few suggestions:

 

Blues & Blues/Rock - any of Joanne Shaw Taylor’s CDs

- Gary Moore Legacy, Bad for You Baby

- Luther Allison Live in Chicago; Live in Paris

- Walter Trout We’re All in This Together, ALive in Amsterdam

- Christone Kingfish Ingram - Kingfish

-Alastair Green - Dream Train, Live From the 805

- Coco Montoya - Hard Truth

- Popa Chubby Live Big Bad Beautiful

- Alvin Lee Pure Blues

- Joe Bonamassa - Blues of Desperation, Blues Deluxe

- John Mayall - 70th Birthday Concert

 

Jazz - Female Vocals

- All of Lyndsey Websters and Melody Gardot CDs

- Maysa Blue Velvet Soul

 

If you like great guitar playing maybe check out music by the following to see if you like any - new flamenco

     Strunz & Farah

      Roman Street

      Nova Menco

      Ottmar Liebert

      Oscar Lopez

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

CD’s recorded by STS in the Netherlands are superb.  You could purchase directly from their website at sts-digitalshop.nl

 

"Graceland" by Paul Simon. There's a lot to like on that album and recorded cleanly.

I feel the early cd the AAD sound better than the DDD.Those are the one's all Digital, that have exaggerated Bass sounds.When I have compared the first AAD cds.to the new,recut ones DDD the AAD win every time.

Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods (RCA Victor) – even if you're not a dedicated jazz fan. Terrific album and recording.

+1 for Sting's "Ten Summoner's Tales".  Superbly written, played and recorded.

+1 for "Jazz At The Pawnshop".  I've got the 3-CD anniversary edition - marvelous.

Most any Steely Dan will sound good.  Always very well-produced music.  I like "Two Against Nature".  "West of Hollywood" is a great song, one of my reference tunes.  Donald Fagen's "Kamakiriad" is also a stellar recording, nominated for Album of the Year, FWIW.

Norah Jones' "Come Away with Me" was very well done, also a great collection of songs.  Won a Grammy for best engineered album, FWIW.

 

- Rodney Crowell: The Houston Kid. A perfect album.

- The Notorious Cherry Bombs (Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill): s/t. Joyful singin’ and pickin’!

- The Johnny Staats Project (Bluegrass super-session): Wires & Wood. Virtuoso musicianship.

- Iris DeMent: The Way I Should.

-        "           : Lifeline.

-        "           : Sing The Delta.

-        "           : The Trackless Woods.

-        "           : Workin’ On A World (due out Feb 24th).

 

Why on CD? ’Cause they have never been available on LP (except for promo-only copies of The Way I Should, one copy of which I own).

Good evening all, wanted to share my first experience with new HiFi CDs

Got a couple Blue Note XR24 from Elusive Disc

Donald Byrd - The Cat Walk

Stanley Turrentine - Look Out!

I have been listening to them quite a bit and on these two examples, they sound better than streaming them from Qobuz.  The gain is much higher on Qobuz so have to match the volume and ignore that initial loudness impact.  

I don't have either of these on vinyl for comparison.  

I am enjoying getting reconnected to CDs and look forward to trying more.  There is lots of great feedback on this thread so will take some time reviewing, streaming the music and then shopping for the ones I like.