What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you?

Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings UHQR

Alan Parsons Project - I Robot UHQR

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue MOFI 45 Box set

Modern Jazz Quartet- Django 45 (I think Analogue Productions Quality Record Pressing)

Stan Getz- Getz Gilberto - Speakers Corner

Fleetwood Mac (self titled) - Mobile Fidelity

Too many Japanese pressings to name individually, but the Dire Straits first 2 seem to stick out and their Love Over Gold from Pallas Germany

Generally speaking, 45s sound great - never been disappointed with one - I guess they take care in all aspects when making them.

Forgot one - Pink Floyd Wish you were Here CBS Mastersound Japanese - (Welcome to the Machine is incredible)

Shirley Horn - The Music That Makes Me Dance. Breathtakingly executed in production and performance.

Cassandra Wilson - New Moon Daughter. Again, excellent performances and sound quality.

Personally I found Patricia Barber café blue recording too hi Fi, I mean it doesn't sound real for me, it's a bit sci Fi. But it might be my system, anyway, some of my reference recording that gives me goosebumps are this:

Sam Cooke / night beat 

Inti illimani / lugares comunes

Sueye Park/ Paganini 24 caprices SACD

Ella and Louis SACD

Simone kopmajer / live at Heidi

Very common but still... Nils lofgren/ acoustic live

Jacques lousier/ the best of play Bach SACD

Pink Floyd/ the wall and animals

Roxy Music - Avalon SACD