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
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
+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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