Best sounding recordings in your collection?

[Progger58]

When it comes to great audio quality, right now I can think of these as some standouts in my own collection:

=> STEELY DAN – Two Against Nature, Gaucho & Everything Must Go

=> DONALD FAGEN – Morph the Cat

=> TALK TALK – Spirit of Eden

=> MICKEY HART – Mystery Box

=> TERJE RYPDAL – If Mountains Could Sing & Skywards

=> ARILD ANDERSEN GROUP – Electra

=> GORDIAN KNOT – Emergent

=> BRAND X – Manifest Destiny

=> KEVIN GILBERT – Shaming of the True

=> PINK FLOYD – Dark Side of the Moon

=> ISILDURS BANE – Mind Vol. 1 & 2

=> CHRIS REA – The Road to Hell

=> ROGER WATERS – Amused to Death

=> PORCUPINE TREE – In Absentia & Signify

=> STEVEN WILSON – Insurgentes (the DVD-A disc specially)

=> OZRIC TENTACLES – Hidden Step & Waterfall Cities

=> PROEJCT LO – Black Canvas

=> YES – The Ladder

=> XTC – Apple Venus

=> MARILLION – Marbles

=> THE BLUE NILE – Hats

=> SINGULARITY – Of All the Mysteries

=> TREY GUNN – The Joy of Molybdenum

=> MIKE KENEALLY – The Universe Will Provide

=> BÉLA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES – Outbound

=> DAVID TORN/MICK KARN/TERRY BOZZIO – Polytown

=> BOZZIO LEVIN STEVENS – Black Light Syndrome

=> BRUFORD LEVIN – Upper Extremities

=> BRIAN BROMBERG – Wood & Choices

=> COCO MONTOYA – Suspicion

=> VERTÚ – Vertú

=> JEFF GOLUB – Do It Again

=> NIACIN – Niacin & Time Crunch

=> ANDY SUMMERS – Earth + Sky

=> METRO – Tree People & Grapevine

=> PEDER AF UGGLAS – Autumn Shuffle

=> JOHN McLAUGHLIN – The Heart of Things

=> MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD - Shack-Man

I will bring more later, after checking out some others more carefully.

And how about yours?

Demetrio.

 

[sgtpepper9]

Medeski, Martin & Wood - Uninvisible (DTS 6.1 and DVD-A 5.1) {The imaging on this album blows my mind)

The Beatles - Love (DVD-A 5.1)

The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (DVD-A 5.1)
- Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (DVD-A 5.1) {These should be on everyone's list}

The Super Furry Animals - Rings Around the World (DTS 5.1)
- Phantom Power (DTS 5.1)

 

[Hawkeye]

Tales of Mystery and Imagination - The Alan Parsons Project - MFSL cd
I Robot - The Alan Parsons Project - HDAD
Barry Goudreau - s/t - vinyl

I also have a bunch you've already mentioned, Progger, and would agree they sound very good.

 

[Progger58]

Some few additions to my initial list:

=> STEVE TIBBETTS – A Man About a Horse & Big Map Idea

=> CHARLIE HUNTER & LEON PARKER – Duo

=> STEVE KHAN & ROB MOUNSEY – You Are Here

=> SCOTT HENDERSON / STEVE SMITH / VICTOR WOOTEN – Vital Tech Tones

=> NILS PETTER MOLVAER – Khmer & American Compilation

=> ERIK TRUFFAZ – The Walk of the Giant Turtle

=> ST. GERMAIN – Tourist

=> MIKE KENEALLY – Dog & Wooden Smoke


Demetrio.

 

[Progger58]

A few more rock (some prog) standouts, in addition to my previous lists:

=> DONALD FAGEN – The Nightfly & Kamakiriad

=> TALK TALK – The Colour of Spring

=> MARK HOLLIS – Mark Hollis

=> ROBBY ACETO – Code

=> DANIEL LANOIS – Shine

=> PETER GABRIEL – Passion & Up

=> NINE HORSES – Snow Borne Sorrow

=> STEVE JANSEN & RICHARD BARBIERI – Stories Across Borders

=> ROBBIE ROBERTSON – Music for the Native Americans

=> TALE MUSIC GROUP – Elysium Fields

=> PARANOISE – Private Power & ISHQ

=> THE TEA PARTY – TRIPtych

=> A PERFECT CIRCLE – Thirteenth Step


Demetrio.

 

[j_garcia]

Jazz at the Pawnshop

Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue, Companion (SACD)

Dave Bruebeck Quartet - Concord on a Summer Night (SACD)

Blue Man Group - The Complex (DVD-A)

Roxy Music - AVALON (SACD)

Pink Floyd - DSoTM (SACD)

 

[jamie2112]

I have so much good stuff that I cannot even think of 3 right off the bat....I love listening to live soundboard mixes that I have done myself. They always seem the best to me. I am listening to Maceo Parker live on New Years Eve 2004 as I write this and the sound is steller. I like a very full sounding mix and I would agree that all the music listed so far has those qualitys......I am just partial to my own mixes.....

 

[jamie2112]

Quicksand- Slip
Rage against the Machine- 1st record
Porcupine Tree- Anything
311- 311 Day 94 live

 

[Progger58]

Porcupine Tree- Anything

Very glad to meet another PT fan over here!!

Kind regards,
Demetrio.

 

[jamie2112]

Very glad to meet another PT fan over here!!

Kind regards,
Demetrio.

Listening to Deadwing as I type.....great band.

 

[Progger58]

Listening to Deadwing as I type.....great band.

Have you checked STEVEN WILSON's "Insurgentes" yet? A great solo work by Porcupine Tree's frontman.

I highly recommend the CD + DVD-Audio version of this recording. An absolutely brilliant 5.1 mix Steven Wilson did on the Insurgentes DVD-A!!

Demetrio.

 

[jamie2112]

I have not, but will pick it up. Thanks for the heads up.....

 

[adwilk]

I LOVE Porcupine Tree.

I also like the 311 day 94.

Got the Incubus Alive at Red Rocks on BluRay... hard not to recommend that.

Jamie, you have anything cool/rare/live from 311?

 

[jamie2112]

I LOVE Porcupine Tree.

I also like the 311 day 94.



Jamie, you have anything cool/rare/live from 311?

I was their soundman for 8 years 98 -06 and I have EVERYTHING from that time period.

 

[itschris]

Farvorite disc to this day is my Telarc SPIES disc. It's got some great tracks that just melt the speakers with sweet sound. Barcelona Nighte is a must listen.

 

[Hawkeye]

I was their soundman for 8 years 98 -06 and I have EVERYTHING from that time period.

Hey, that's cool, my son was (is still?) a big fan of 311 and has seen them play several times. He also was a huge fan of the now defunct band Piebald.

Another very good sounding disc is he Beatles' cd and/or dvd-a "Love."

 

[walter duque]

Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms by far the best Recording in my Collection.
Looks like I don't have much of a Collection.

 

[EugenT]

Just wanted to chime in...

I just bought Pink Floyd's 'Wish you were here' and 'Dark side of the moon' 30th anniversary edition.
I have 3 DSOTM LPs, one is pretty much original, 2nd is from 2003, 3rd is 30th anniversary. I can tell you that the new one sounds so much better than 2003 version, I am just amazed. So, that's the best LPs I have.

 

[j_garcia]

Have you checked STEVEN WILSON's "Insurgentes" yet? A great solo work by Porcupine Tree's frontman.

I highly recommend the CD + DVD-Audio version of this recording. An absolutely brilliant 5.1 mix Steven Wilson did on the Insurgentes DVD-A!!

Demetrio.

My buddy who turned me on to PT originally said he bought this and didn't really like it.

I like Blackfield, another side project of Wilson's, also.

 

[Progger58]

My buddy who turned me on to PT originally said he bought this and didn't really like it.

If he's a fan of Porcupine Tree I'm sure this will grow on him at some moment. I bet it's just a matter of time.

I like Blackfield, another side project of Wilson's, also.

Blackfield is also great indeed. Another Steven Wilson's side project that I also enjoy a lot is NO-MAN.

Demetrio.