CD getting as good as LPs - recommendations

I do believe that the only thing which may convince dyed in the wool lp fans would be to have lp surface noise added as a form mega-dither to cds so that they would not miss the one significant characteristic of lps. I have received last Saturday my first three XRCDs and the sound is excellent. Due to the age of the original recording one does have a fair amount of tape hiss, but I have always felt that hiss was not as bad as ticks and pops, since the sound is continuous and not made up of sharp attacks. I still find that my el-cheapo Sony SACD player sounds a tiny bit better than cds, but the difference is so slight that the refusal by almost every audiophile to go for multi-channel sound allied to the infinitesimal gap between the best cds and most sacds does not bode well for the acceptance of the SACD format. The two XRCDs that I would recommend, based on the very small sample that I have heard, are Kelly Blue by Wynton Kelly and Art Pepper + Eleven.

There are following label that have great quality but unfortunately not like vinyl:

CMP even early ones sound great, Concord Jazz, ECM, Nonesuch...

Make sure to get original and non-club versions.
Also some of the experimental and small record companies such as Crammed.

I also figured that eropean versions of CD sound much better than US(probably due to the pressing quality i.e. less flimsy, thicker...)

Epic-Japan, EMI-Japan are superb.
For the experimental stuff I buy anything that is on Avan-Japan.

Chesky label solely oriented on sound and spirit of a voice and/or instrument but not the music... Sounds superb though.

Patricia Barber's last albums recorded too bass-y where acoustic bass so-loved by all audiophiles dominates even over her ehem... voice.

In general I want to point out that MUSIC is the ONLY thing that should be considered during recording and NOT the sound of instrument and/or voice.

Try Mapleshade Recordings and Opus.

I enjoy the Decca Legends series of classical remasters, but then my system is significantly lower resolution than yours, so I can't say how they sound to you.
Decca has always captured a good balance between spaciousness and imaging that I very much like for classical music.