Thought it might be fun to make a list of those artists/bands who are known ( or not so known ) to come out with high quality recordings. I'll start it off with a couple of easy ones 🙂
1. Tom Petty
2. Dire Straits
3.
1. Tom Petty
2. Dire Straits
3.
Thought it might be fun to make a list of those artists/bands who are known ( or not so known ) to come out with high quality recordings. I'll start it off with a couple of easy ones 🙂
1. Tom Petty
2. Dire Straits
I'll add a few more:
3. Cheryl Crow
4. Viktor Krauss
5. Dead Can Dance
6. XTC
Elliane Elias
Fabrizio Bosso
Diana Krall
Joe SampleMichel Petrucciano (R.I.P.)
Yo Yo Ma
Producers and recording engineers are important here as well. Al Schmidt - must be the #1 all time high quality audio producer
Fabrizio Bosso
Diana Krall
Joe SampleMichel Petrucciano (R.I.P.)
Yo Yo Ma
Producers and recording engineers are important here as well. Al Schmidt - must be the #1 all time high quality audio producer
Hi,
From what I listened to through the years I'd additionally recommend:
--Joni Mitchell
--Paul Simon
--"later" David Bowie stuff
--Kim Wilson (most of his solo works are in Mono)
Labels:
--AudioQuest
--JVC K2 (the remastered Audioquest stuff issued also seems to sound better, here)
--Mapleshade
--Stockfisch (Accoustic Guitars ! Chris Jones used to do a lot of "work" for them.)
--Older Verve and Blue Note stuff (the original "approved" stuff, here) depending on mastering.( -- especially the Toshiba HS2088 mastering -- the SBM-Remasters, well, I still
can't say that they are better )
--in general all Rudy-van-Gelder-recordings, as far as I've come across it -- yes and "depends on mastering" also applies here.
In general I found japanese pressings more pleasing than the comparable European- or US-Pressings. (Blue Note, Columbia/CBS, Impulse)
-- Telarc I'd rather put in a mixed bag, IMHO musically sometimes inferior to other recordings of their artists. (My listening experience here is more confined to their Blues/Roots/Jazz-kind recordings.)
Hope this helps a bit ....
Greez
SigFire
From what I listened to through the years I'd additionally recommend:
--Joni Mitchell
--Paul Simon
--"later" David Bowie stuff
--Kim Wilson (most of his solo works are in Mono)
Labels:
--AudioQuest
--JVC K2 (the remastered Audioquest stuff issued also seems to sound better, here)
--Mapleshade
--Stockfisch (Accoustic Guitars ! Chris Jones used to do a lot of "work" for them.)
--Older Verve and Blue Note stuff (the original "approved" stuff, here) depending on mastering.( -- especially the Toshiba HS2088 mastering -- the SBM-Remasters, well, I still
can't say that they are better )
--in general all Rudy-van-Gelder-recordings, as far as I've come across it -- yes and "depends on mastering" also applies here.
In general I found japanese pressings more pleasing than the comparable European- or US-Pressings. (Blue Note, Columbia/CBS, Impulse)
-- Telarc I'd rather put in a mixed bag, IMHO musically sometimes inferior to other recordings of their artists. (My listening experience here is more confined to their Blues/Roots/Jazz-kind recordings.)
Hope this helps a bit ....
Greez
SigFire
A couple of heavier artists who consistently make high quality recordings:
Iron Maiden
Tool / A Perfect Circle
Iron Maiden
Tool / A Perfect Circle
A couple of heavier artists who consistently make high quality recordings:
Iron Maiden
Tool / A Perfect Circle
+1.
Dream Theater also.
Some older Metallica
Goldfrapp
Pink Floyd.
To avoid?
More recent Metallica and Madonna. Just looking at the waveforms in Audacity makes me cry. I cannot reconcile with Madge's Confessions... album. Even chopping 9dB off the highs...it's still unlistenable.
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George Szell -- but "requiescat in pace" -- had the opportunity of listening to him conduct as a youth.
I don't think Horowitz ever made a bad recording.
I've bought several Paul McCreesh choral recordings -- none have disapponted, mais a chacun son propre gout musical.
I don't think Horowitz ever made a bad recording.
I've bought several Paul McCreesh choral recordings -- none have disapponted, mais a chacun son propre gout musical.
Jennifer Warnes.
Lucinda Williams.
Williams is notorious for her perfectionism in the studio. It shows in her recordings.
Lucinda Williams.
Williams is notorious for her perfectionism in the studio. It shows in her recordings.
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