I wasn't around for the original Sounds Good group compilations but I'm here now so hows about another installment? Criteria is simple:

> First and foremost it has to be a song you really dig. Well-recorded audiophilia pap is still pap.
> It has to be one of those recordings that makes all the money you spent on your audio gear seem justified.

Just upload a song to www.mediafire.com in a lossless or uncompressed format and post the link in this thread. If we get enough participation I'll sequence and edit (if necessary) it into a downloadable FLAC-8 comp.

To start things off my pick is Calexico's awesome instrumental track, "El Picador". All of Calexico's LPs and CDs I own have great sonics but this isn't the version from Hot Rail, but rather it's from the infamous China Theater, Stockholm show recorded in April, 2003. This is an amateur (supposedly) soundboard recording that sounds better than most official live albums. There's a real sense of space. There's real dynamic range. The horns have bite without sounding harsh. The drums sound like real drums. Etc., etc. Best of all the band has never sounded better.

Linky:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?asccms0ipg9