CHANDOS label...

A lot of good recordings, agreed, and excellent repertoire. But overall are they better than, say, Hyperion?

Not in stereo but Hyperion stopped doing multichannel a long ways back and Chandos still feeds my need for it.

If I may, I want to insert another name...Ars Produktion for SACD...I find their recordings super crisp and clean sounding 

Playing this as we speak. Darius Milhaud - Athena Ensemble ‎– Music For Wind Instruments (Chandos 1980)

Sounds clean and clear and well recorded. 

While cruising through Primephonic, I just happened upon a Chandos recording of Victorian era British composer Dame Ethyl Smyth's cantata The Prison.  Needless to say, I'd never heard of Ethyl Smyth or her cantata.  Anyway, in a few words, damn, is this gorgeous!  Recording is full, rich and spacious.  The music is echt-romantic.  Played with pull-out-all-the-stops commitment.  A guilty pleasure?  Or a not so guilty pleasure? I don't care which.