What are your best sounding CDs?

[mkuller]

This is a subject of interest to me since I only listen to redbook CDs.

Here are the ones I would say sound the best in my collection in no particular order:

Beatles 2009 remasters
Graceland 2012 remaster
Clapton Unplugged
Clifford Jordan Live at Ethel's
Getz/Gilberto MoFi
Santana Abraxas MoFi
Steve Winwood Higher Love MoFi
Dark Side of the Moon 30th Anniv. 2003
Steely Dan Aja MoFi
Steely Dan Gaucho German pressing
Herbie Hancock Possibilities
Boz Scaggs Speak Low
Led Zeppelin 2014 remasters
Roy Orbison All Time Greatest Hits DCC
Elvis 24 Karat Hits DCC
Super Session 2003 remaster
Eagles Hell Freezes Over
Lyle Lovett Joshus Judges Ruth
Joan Armatrading
Holly Cole Don't Smoke in Bed
Dead Can Dance Spiritchaser
Famous Blue Raincoat
Diana Kralls
Partricia Barbers
Jose Carreras Misa Criolla
Mercury Classicals

But wait, there's more:

Jackson Browne Pretender MoFi
Robert JJohnson King of the Delta Blues Singers
Beach Boys Endless Summer DCC
Cream Disraeli Gears MoFi
Robert Cray Strong Persuader MoFi
Derek and the Dominos Layla MoFi
Best of the Doobie Brothers DCC
Eagles Hotel California DCC
Loggins and Messina Full Sail MoFi
Little Feat Waiting for Columbus
Keb Mo
Jethro Tull Stand Up MoFi
John Lee Hooker The Healer MoFi
Bruce Hornsby Harbor Lights
Dave MAson Alone Together MoFi
Who's NExt MoFi
U2 Joshua Tree MoFi
Stevie Ray Vaughn The Sky is Crying MoFi
Traffic Low Spark of High Heeled Boys MoFi
James Taylor JT Columbia SBM Gold
Police Synchronicity MoFi
Tears For Fears Songs From the Big Chair MoFi
Sting Dream of the Blue Turtles MoFi
Muddy Waters Folk Singer MoFi
Jazz at the Pawnshop
Willie NElson Stardust
Rickie Lee Jones
Rob Wasserman Duets and Trios
Sheffield Track Record
Dave Gruisin Discovered Again Sheffield
Allen Toussaint Bright Mississippi
Cantante Domino
Auer-Delmoni-Rosen Clarity
Casino Royale Varese Saraband
Dave Grisman/Tony Rice Tone Poems
Cheskys - esp. Oregon Beyond Words
Reference Recordings
Audioquest

What are yours?

[Rob]

I posted these on other sites, these are discs I own and hasn't been updated in a coupla years and its completely missing classical. Don't blame me if the music is not your cup of tea, but the sonics are what we're talking about here...


Fairfield Four - Standing in The Safety Zone
Angelique Kidjo – Jazz a Saint-Germain
Pedro Almodovar – Viva La Tristeza
Wynton Marsalis – Live at the house of Tribes
Angus & Julia Stone – Down the Way
Jen Chapin - Revisions, Chesky (192/24)
Mino Cinelu – eponymous
Clifford Jordan – Live at Ethell’s
Marcus Miller – M2
Vital Tech Tones - VTT2
Rachelle Farrell – individuality (can I be me)
Greg Brown – Honey in the Lions head
Musica Nuda – Live a fip
Bebe - Y.
Kodo – Heartbeat Drummers of Japan, Sheffield Lab
Tuck & Patti – tears of Joy
Brian Bromberg – Hands
Christy Baron – Steppin’
The persuasions – Sing U2
Michael Hedges –Ariel Boundaries
Chick Corea – Rendezvous in New York
Bela Fleck – Flight of The Cosmic Hippo
Thomas Dolby – the Sole inhabitant
Guy Clark – Keepers
Juri Honing Trio - Star Tracks
Peter Erskine, B. Neidlinger, M. Krystall - Aurora
Whitesnake – Starkers In Tokyo
The Eagles – Hell Freezes Over
Chris Jones – Roadhouse & Automobiles
The TBM Sounds! – Ultra HD JPN
Brian Bromberg – Wood II
Nils Lofgren – Acoustic Live
Mark Murphy – Love is What Stays
Mark Murphy – Once to Every Heart
Super Bass – Ray Brown
Jorma Kaukonen – Blue Country Heart
Ali Farka Toure, T. Diabate – Heart of the moon
Guy Clark – Cold Dog Soup
Allen Toussaint – The Bright Mississippi
Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
Greg Brown – Further In
Leonard Cohen – Live in London
Ray brown – Live at the LOA: Summer Wind, SACD
Shirley Horn – Here’s to life
Jennifer Warnes – Famous Blue Raincoat 24K Gold
Boz Scaggs – But Beautiful (Jpn)
Christian McBride – Conversations with Christian
Boz Scaggs – Speak Low
Tinariwen – Tassilli
Hans Theesink – Johnny & The devil
Rosanne cash – 10 Song Demo
Gotan Project – Revancha del tango
Shirley Horn – Jazz Round Midnight
Shirley Horn – Softly
Shirley Horn – Loving You
Shirley Horn – I Remember Miles
Misty River – Live at Backgate Stage
Shirley Horn – you’re my thrill
Shirley Horn – May the music never end
Xiomara – La Voz, Chesky (192/24)
Hank Jones, Christian McBride, J. Cobb – W. of 5th
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Live
Mary Stallings – Fine & Mellow
Livingston Taylor – There You Are
Rodrigo Y Rodrigo – Live in Japan
Boz Scaggs – Dig
The Wailin’ Jennys – Live at the Mauch Chunck opera House
Eric Clapton – Unplugged
Rachael Yamagata – Happenstance
Damien Rice – Live at Fingerprints Warts & All
Ben Sollee - Learning to Bend
Lyle Lovett – Joshua Loves Ruth
Chris Jones – Smoke and Noise
Dominic Miller - Fourth Wall
Roger Waters – Amused to death, Mastersound 24k Gold CD
Phil Collins - Face Value, Audio Fidelity 24k gold CD
Hans Theesink – Songs from the Southland

[mkuller]

Nice list. A few of those I used to own but never listened to them.

[jazdoc]

[Hugh]

New York Uncovered -Hiroko Kokubu

[Bruce B]

Just about all that I did for FIM

[allenh]

Nice list guys. Others I would add:

Holly Cole - Tempation
Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man (Oue/MO/RR)
Fleck/Chen/Bhatt - Tabula Rasa (Water Lily)
Ali Akbar Khan - Indian Archtexture (Water Lily)
Silk Road Ensemble - Silk Road Journey
Mickey Hart - Planet Drum, Dafos
Min/Li - River of Sorrow (FIM)

[MylesBAstor]

Here's a few that I used to listen to a bit and still occasionally bring along to shows (I know there's some overlap but still chose to list to show agreement!):

A Meeting by the River Water Lily
Bela Fleck: Flight of the Cosmic Hippo (the recent LP was very disappointing)
Bill Evans: Portrait in Jazz JVC XRCD/Riverside
Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard JVC XRCD Riverside
Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby JVC XRCD/Riverside
Burmester: Sampler Discs 1-III Burmester
Cassandra Wilson: Blue Light Til Dawn Blue Note
Cassandra Wilson: Traveling Miles Blue Note
David Johansen and the Harry Smiths Chesky
Dean Peer: U Cross House House Records
Dire Straits: BIA JVC XRCD
Favorite Chinese Instrumentals FIM
George Faber: It Beat Workin' Pope Music
Euforia Mapleshade
Eric Bibb: Just Like Love Opus 3
Holly Cole: Don't Smoke in Bed (Alert release)
Holly Cole: Temptation (Alert release)
Jazz at the Pawnshop FIM XRCD/Proprius
John Coltrane: Ballads MOFI
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman MOFI
Kambara Music in Native Tongues Water Lily
Lightnin' Hopkins: Going Away JVC XRCD/Prestige
Livingston Taylor: Ink Chesky
Muddy Waters: Folk Singer MOFI
Music for the Motherless Child Water Lily (perhaps the best CD I've ever heard)
Patricia Barber: Cafe Blue
Patricia Barber: Verse
Roger Waters: Amused to Death
Pulse Classic Records
Sara Vaughan: How Long Has This Been Going On? JVC XRCD/Pablo
Sara Vaughan: Send in the Clowns JVC XRCD/Pablo
Sound of Rhythm Top Music
Tabula Rasa Water Lily
The Art of the Ballad Mapleshade
The Fairfield Four: Standing in the Safety Zone Warner
The Fi/Analogue Productions Sampler
The Flirtations: Live Out on the Road Flirt Records
The Mellow Side of Clifford Jordan Mapleshade
The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album JVC XRCD/Fantasy
Tom Petty: Full Moon Fever MOFI
Victor Wooten: A Show of Hands Compass Records

[MylesBAstor]

Just about all that I did for FIM

Embarrassingly, I have about a dozen unopened FIM CDs sitting here. At least Heidi dusted all my CDs off last week. (Jack!)

I did have two on my list though!

[jazdoc]

Pablo Aslan "Avantango", ZOHO, 2004
Avishai Cohen's Triveni "Dark Nights", Anzic, 2014
Ricky Fante "Rewind", Virgin 2004
Renaud Garcia-Fons "La Linea del Sur", Enja, 2009
Jimmy Greene "Beautiful Life", Mack Avenue, 2014
Charlie Loesel "Westfalia", Incochee Trail Music, 2010
Marcy Playground "Leaving Wonderland In A Fit of Rage", Woz Records, 2009
Bill Mays Trio "Going Home", Palmetto, 2003
Arturo O'Farrill "Live In Brooklyn", ZOHO, 2005
Maria Rita "Samba Meu", WM Brazil, 2007
Alfredo Rodriguez "Sounds of Space", Qwest, 2010
Bebo Valdes & Cigala "Lagrimas Negras", Calle 54, 2003

[Steve Lefkowicz]

Do all of you play your CDs in an actual physical disk player? All my CDs are immediately ripped into my server (as FLAC files) for playback. I haven't had my Marantz SA8001 plugged in for about two years. I appreciate how every improvement in digital playback system makes those CD files sound better and better. Still much prefer my LPs, but files from CD are quite enjoyable in my system now.

I'll have a list of some of my best sounding ones soon.

[mkuller]

Yes, I play my CDs on my big system. I have ripped my favorite 6700 songs from about 700 CDs to my iTunes in Lossless which I can convert to AIFF - I play those on my iPod while I'm reading through the TV system, through speakers out on the patio for cocktails and parties, at the gym or while travelling.

[MylesBAstor]

I'm lazy and either play CDs on a player or server. And yes, the RBCDs sound better ripped in DSD to the server.

[Alrainbow]

Wow nice list plenty for me to check out on tidal and I win plenty on the lists
I am down south for the weekend tired but I do have one for you guys that comes to mind.
Ots not available for download though. If allowed I can go onto one of my servers as load a couple of tracks on drop box for a testing taste
it's count Basie Kansas City shout on poblo records.
Its a picture of him in white orange and back. I'll post a pic later. Out now. One of the best stuff I own on pcm format and red book. I do a few others as well but I burnt out from the week. It's a must own it's very dynamic and plays low so be careful when the whole group comes in it's much louder
my fav track is just a dream on my mind
Eddie cleanhesd is one of the featured artists.