Your 3 BEST SOUNDING albums - Page 5

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Originally Posted by IPodPJ 

Another very good one is MGMT's Oracular Spectacular. They use a lot of distortion sounds but the recording is super clean. So is Empire Of The Sun's Walking On A Dream.

Srsly? I thought Oracular Spectacular sounded awful. The vocals were so saturated... It ruined it imo. I guess it's down to opinion.

My new top three:

Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism

Beck - Sea Change

The Dresden Dolls - The Dresden Dolls

Most likely:

Stan Getz-Getz Gilberto

Bowers and Wilkins (legally downloaded .wav)

Rodrigo y Gabriela-Rodrigo y Gabriela

Three albums here:

Patricia Barber-  Cafe Blue

Rebecca Pidgeon - The Raven

Disco Hooligans - Clear Skies (LEGAL DOWNLOAD HERE!: http://www.ektoplazm.com/2009/disco-hooligans-clear-skies )

That Disco Hooligans album is so fantastic, both musically and production and is the best produced electronic music album I have ever heard.

Wildcards (i.e. albums that you wouldn't think are 'audiophile quality' but very much are):

Westlife - Westlife

R.E.M - Out of Time

Dr. Dre  - The Chronic

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

Toe - For Long Tomorrow

Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan

Tool - Undertow always sounds good to me. Very strong attack.

Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is not a cold dead place. Not only one of my favorite albums but man it sounds good. The record sounds CD sourced btw but still sounds good.

I have a soundboard recording of Streetlight Manifesto playing in Sydney and it is the best sounding sound board record I have ever heard. Not in quality per say but in mastering. With a good set of IEM on a few songs, its like the drummer is hitting your eardrums. It is amazing.

R.L. Burnside - "Too Bad Jim"

Dave Holland/Hank Jones/Billy Higgins - "The Oracle"

Buddy Holly - "From the Original Master Tapes"

At least these are the best-sounding regular, redbook cd's that come to mind.  If I comb through for a while I might find others, but these are all amazing, from 3 different genres.

eric clapton - unplugged

al kooper/michael bloomfield/steve stills - super session

david 'fathead' newman - I remember raymond

I tend to steer clear of these threads' cause I'm much more into music than sound, but how about these?

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings

Roxy Music - Avalon

I really couldn't tell you if they're my "3 BEST" (I have tons of albums), but I know I've caught myself marveling at the sound of each of these at one time or another.

Michael Brecker's "Pilgrimage"

Ken Navarro's "Dreaming of Trains"

Two (2) very well-mastered releases.