Quote Originally Posted by MikeyBC
Dont you hate it when you get home with a new disc and put it your high end system...you get in your listening chair and press play....and feel that wave of disappointment when you realize the recording engineer didnt give a damn how it sounded?

So my question is what are the 5 best sounding recordings you own?

mine are:
Jennifer Warnes--Famous blue raincoat (Attic)
Pat Coil--Just ahead (Sheffield labs)
Peter Gabriel--Security (Geffen)
Matt Dusk--Two shots (Decca)
Paul Simon--The rythm of the saints. (Warner Bros.)

They may not be my favorite artists but in my opinion among best engineered recordings I own.
I was surprised to find that Beck's Mutations sounds really good. Some of the arrangements have instrumentation that could've sounded harsh and irritating, but the sound is big and lush even on cd.

Another one that surprised me was Miles Davis' The Musings of Miles. When he comes in on "A Night in Tunisia" it's like he's in the room. I get this sensation more with the vinyl on Prestige than I do with the DCC gold disc, but it's good too. Side 2 is one of my favorite all-time album sides. (BTW, music for a song used to have DCC gold disc cut-outs for dirt cheap.)

Another of my all-time favorite album sides is side one of Bab Marley's Natty Dread. I picked up a remastered version of this on vinyl that sounds excellent. I thought this release was from Speakers Corner but the only label info I can find is "Island."

A good sparse recording (distinct, simple instrumentation and vocals) is the MoFi release of REM's Murmur on vinyl. This thing sounds far superior to the original release.

Blue Note's 180 gram vinyl release of Coltrane's Blue Trane.

Some others of note - Pavement's Terror Twilight on vinyl; Dave Brubek's Time Out; ABKCO's vinyl release of the Rolling Stones' Beggar's Banquet - this sounds like rock-n-roll to me, even though it has the reputation for being poorly recorded (side 2 is another of my all-time favorite album sides).

You can't beat it when good music and good sound meet.