Best audiophile metal and rock albums - Page 3

I always thought Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction was well recorded.

Certainly as has been suggested multiple times Tool's Lateralus & Aenima. I second the Porcupine Tree recommendation as well.

Megadeth Countdown To Extinction MFSL no that is worth spending a lot of money on.

Most of Dire Straits CDs are well recorded so are some of the older studio Bruce Springsteen records.

Nils Lofgrens Acoustic Live is a perfect live recording, sounds absolutely fantastic.

Children of Bodom, I personally like all their albums, but i think hatebreeder is probably the best. Blooddrunk is their new one and it is awesome. Dragonstorm-Valley of the damned
Deftones-around the fur
Mushroomhead-XIII
Protest the hero-Fortress
The sword- Age of winters
Three inches of blood- fire up the blades
three inches of blood- advance and vanquish

x2,I have the first dire straits album on vinyl and is indeed a great recording

Smashing Pumpkins - Adore and Siamese Dream are both very well produced in my opinion.

Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"? To me the instruments are well separated and placed, and the bass is distinct and audible. Drums are pretty dynamic. Very stereo-y. Sounds great with my D2000s.

I love the Paranoid album, but depends which master you get. I have the Castle remaster (from memory), and it's horribly crackly and staticy. Faeries Wear Boots, especially, is one of my favourites, but there's a bit of ugly distortion that keeps me from turning it up. The Black Box version is superb, though.

A recommendation for ...and Justice for All? I think the mix is horrible. You can't hear the bass, and the drums are so sharp/bright from being so treble biased.

Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (MFSL)
Yes - Fragile (MFSL)
Tool - Aenima, Lateralus
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia, Lightbulb Sun (Original master), Stupid Dream
Opeth - Blackwater Park, Deliverance
Gojira - The Link Re-Release
Necrophagist - Epitaph
Monstrosity - Spiritual Apocalypse
Satyricon - Volcano
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms (SACD, XRCD)
A Perfect Circle - Thirteen Steps
Primus - Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic
Dave Matthews Band - B4 These Crowded Streets, Crash
Godsmack - Other Side
Lacuna Coil - Comalies
Nightwish - Oceanborn
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
Pearl Jam - Ten (Ok, not exceptional)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (MFSL), WYWH (MFSL), DSOTM (SACD), The Final Cut
Roger Waters - Amused to Death (Q Sound!)
Steely Dan - Umm....Aja, Gaucho are top, but all albums sound great
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Stevie Ray Vaughan - The Sky Is Crying
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses
Dream Theater - Awake
Nirvana - Unplugged
Eric Clapton - Unplugged
Lamb Of God - Ashes Of The Wake
Liquid Tension Experiment - Liquid Tension Experiment
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
Extreme - III Sides to Every Story
Fates Warning - Pleasant Shade of Gray
Cowboy Junkies - Whites Off Earth Now! (SACD), Trinity Sessions, Lay it Down (not exactly rock, but I had to mention
Breaking Benjamin - We Are Not Alone
Audioslave - Audioslave
Rage Against The Machine - Rage Against The Machine
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Scorpions - Moment Of Glory
Metallica - S&M
System Of A Down - Toxicity
Gov't Mule - Dose
Iced Earth - Horror Show, Burnt Offerings
Enslaved - Ruun
Kasabian - Kasabian
Dredg - El Cielo

Theatre Of Tragedy1998 - Aegis is a really well recorded album!

definitely one of my best-sounding albums. Good music too.

Tool - 10,000 days in flac also sounds amazing. Good balance and composition, a pleasure to listen to

Ghost REveries and Blackwater Park by Opeth and that one album Still Life.
Dreamtherater- MEtroplis PArt one is good.
Porcupine albums are very well produced- In absentia is the one I like.

I love the quality on Strapping Young Lad albums.

Also anything from Century records seems to be of good quality (came with a sample cd of some artists).

The Dark Side of the Moon SACD sounds wonderful. So does Brothers in Arms and all the CAN reissues on SACD.

Some of these suggestions are very curious. Tool sound excellent with headphones - they're just that kind of band - but they're albums are not well-recorded IMO. Absorbing listens, no doubt, but well recorded? No. Kinda like Radiohead's Kid A in that respect.

I'll throw in one perhaps nobody's noticed:

Audioslave (at least, Out of Exile and Revelations)

Great separation and organic presentation. Cornell's voice on tracks like Be Yourself is just phenomenal with a headphone with great midrange like my R10s.