To my ears, all of the MTV "Unplugged" albums sound great, especially through headphones.  I heartily second another poster's suggestion of the Alice in Chains edition, as well as all of the already-mentioned suggestions which I've heard.   A few other rock albums which I feel are...

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Octavarium for me. It has so many good songs leading up to the awesome Sacrificed Sons, and then the mindblowingly epic title track. Second would be a tough pick. How bout "all the rest of them"

I too have worked in a place that blasted pop radio 24/7, so I understand you're just venting a bit. And, really, Nickleback does suck. Nobody here would disagree with me. Still, the focus should be on what you do like.

My sound card can do it so I've messed around with it a bit. I guess I'm a bit of a purist, but I mostly prefer regular stereo. I do use dolby headphone occasionally when listening to a live album when I want to just shut my eyes and really relax. It's a mood thing.

All of the "Unplugged" albums, but especially Alice in Chains'.

I hear it too. The waveform looks pretty compressed, peaks are brickwalled. It's too bad, I was unimpressed with his 3rd and 4th albums and sort of lost interest - but I'm really digging the lyrics on this one so far. It's just a bit hard to listen to.

#2 in this list concerns me much more.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones I'm not a huge fan of the banjo but I have to admit he's excellent. I was really drawn to them after hearing bassist Victor Wooten though, who is amazing.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Left of Cool Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder Gods

I used to have a hard time waking up, so I set the first 15 seconds of Pink Floyd's Time to my alarm. YAAGHHH!

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