High Quality CD list

[Vancouver]

I have bought so many CDs that I never listen to becuase the sound quality from the recording is just to poor in quality. Half the reason I buy CDs is becuase of the sound quality, not just the music on the CD. I have a few that I think have good transfers I thought I would like to share, and ask if you have bought any CDs that have a great sound transfer please post.


Here is what I bought lately:

Layer Cake (Soundtrack)

Pink Floyd-Echos

Jack Johnson-in between dreams

Ella Fitzgerald and Loui Armstrong (Verve recordings)

 

[Wrk_hrd2Play_hr]

Its not a CD, nonetheless, highly recommend the "Seal 1991-2004 greatest hits" DVD audio....it awesome. Eagles: Hotel California used to be my "system showoff" material....Seal has now taken that spot.

 

[j_garcia]

The Seal greatest hits is available on CD also. Check out the 2 disc set that has the acoustic versions - I'm not crazy about all of them, but they are very well recorded.

Anything done by Patricia Barber that was mastered by MoFi. Some excellent recordings. In particular, Cafe Blue and Companion (which is live).

Fiona Apple - Tidal

Dave Mathews Band - Crash

THE BEST recording I've ever heard is Jazz at the Pawnshop. It's absolutely amazing how much detail they got. It actually sounds better than most of my SACDs.

 

[photodyer]

My favorite system demo--either in CD or DVD-Audio format--is Pat Metheny Group's "Imaginary Day"--it took a Grammy back in the day for Best Jazz Performance, and was well engineered. The two formats have very different flavor . . . I love both for their respective strengths in showing off 2-channel and surround systems (although the CD sounds sweet in DSP surround modes as well!)

Now, my favorite aside, for outstanding recordings look no further than the Stereophile CD's (here ) . . . they are beyond clean, and their engineering is on a completely different level than mass-market CD fare. John Atkinson builds a soundstage that will just flat blow your mind; "Rendezvous" (their jazz cd) gives me chills . . . you can clearly identify the placement of each member of the quintet, making them almost visible.

Many of the Telarc Digital recordings are nice as well, though some are just a bit too heavy-handed on digital effects to my taste.

 

[chas_w]

for outstanding recordings look no further than the Stereophile CD's

I've been meaning to try one of those...I was thinking of the Editor's Choice Sampler but I might have to try out "Rendezvous" instead.

 

[9f9c7z]

On its way out of print, the CD by E.S. Posthumous, “Unearthed’ will allow you to impress anyone with the quality of your spkrs. It is not surround sound, just a quality recording made by two bros, one a studio engr, the other a conductor (music, not trains). You have prob heard some of their music and don’t realize it. I’m told it is over the end credits in the movie ‘Superman’. It is in some scenes in the movie ‘Unfaithful’.

http://www.esposthumus.com

I have never met anyone that did not like their music. Part chorus, part orchestrated, part synthesized (fwiw, Arthur Fiedler once said synthesizers belong as part of an orchestra and snooty people needed to get over their dislike of a ‘new’ source of sound). Great disc for demo’ing spkrs. Took it with me when I demo’d spkrs, everyone around (customers, sales-people, etc) wanted to know what it was and where to get it. E.S.Posth MP3s are kicking around on the web still. It’s getting harder to find/buy the CD.

 

[Kurt C.]

Anyone heard "Engineers Choice" from Delos?

It's cross-section of what Recording Engineer John Eargle feels are his finest recordings. I just ordered it and will report back once I have.