Great sounding/recorded albums

Here's what I've been using for a long time: Weather Report's I Sing The Body Electric and Sweet Nighter. Columbia Records LPs. The songs respectively are: The Unknown Soldier and Boogie Woogie Waltz. Joe Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and crew show how to really do jazz-fusion!

Or "big" sounding symphonic albums that don't sound too thin with good bottom end.

Stuff that I can show off my system to friends and they go "wow".

If you are equipped to play CDs, try to find the recording of Dvorak's "New World" symphony (Symphony No. 9) on the Chesky label, identified as Chesky CD31, Jascha Horenstein conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  It is out of print, but is probably findable in used condition on eBay and possibly at Amazon.

When your friends have raised their jaws back to the normal position after listening to it, they will fall again when you tell them that it was recorded in 1962!

Regards,
-- Al

Rust Never Sleeps

Not on any audiophiles radar, much less the vinyl crowd, but I just recently bought the Teskey Brother's Run Home Slow new album on vinyl. I don't know anything about vinyl and the vinyl part of my system is basic to say the least....old Sony direct drive, Grado Black, $50 phono pre....but this album sounds great. Better than some of my other tiny vinyl collection. I can't point to any specific feature of the SQ that stands out. It just sounds good. My attention drifts away from the system to the music. I have no idea how this album stacks up to other high end vinyl pressings but for $20 it is one of the better recordings I own. Smooth, warm, rich, natural.

A bit off thread, but any Steely Dan fan should get Fagen’s box set Cheap X-mas. It’s a must-have.  Also when is Becker’s “11 Tracks of Whack” gonna get on vinyl?