Your top 5 recordings for sound quality

[Dave_G]

For me the music content matters first, like others, some stuff may "sound good" but I might despise the music.

For me:

Steely Dan - Aja and Gaucho on MFSL compact disk. As close to analog as you can get on a digital platform.

Genesis - Trespass on "Definitive Edition Remaster", available only on import from Holland. This 1970 recording is so doggoned clean it's stunning.

The three RUSH albums on MFSL compact disk are also clean.

Gary Numan's "Telekon" on Beggars Banquet see dee remaster is superb.

The Tulls are done well as are the Yes re-re-re-re-remasters, and Kansas's Masque is the bomb, and Marillion's catalog on EMI remaster is superb as well.

Dave

[N. Abstentia]

The three RUSH albums on MFSL compact disk are also clean.

Dave

You should pick up the Rush Remasters..they absolutely trounce the MFSL versions!

[20to20K]

Herb Albert - Rise (Bernie Grundman)
Keith Jarrett - Still Live (Some German guy)
Dave Grusin - Mountain Dance (Rosen)
Steely Dan - Aja (MFSL) (Gary Katz)
Rufus & Chaka Khan - MasterJam (Bruce Sweiden)

Another 5

Doobie Brothers - Livin' on a Fault Line
Rachelle Farrelle - Individuality
Pat Metheny Group - This Way up (brand new)
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue (over 40 years old!)
Al Jarraeu - L is for Lover (Al Schmitt)

[Shwamdoo]

Eric Clapton's Unplugged album is one of my favorite recordings, it really is a masterpiece.

[psonic]

Steely Dan - Aja
Sade - Greatest
Dave Matthews band - Crash
Natalie Merchant - Tigerlilly
Beck - Sea Change
Talking heads - Greatest
Santana - Supernatural

[Killroy]

Beck-Sea Change (the best)
Air- Talkie Walkie
Massive Attack
AC/DC- Back in Black
Rush-Moving Pictures