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Great Recordings, Sonically Speaking - and Why.

I think many of us would accept that artists such as Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, and Dire Straits have consistently put out music that was at least originally recorded to a high technical standard. [I'm not too sure what the loudness wars may have done to subsequent reissues, but even so, the tone and timbre thankfully tends to remain intact.]

However there must be plenty of lesser known recordings out there that could be said to be of a high sonic standard.

One such recording that I like to put on in the background whilst I'm doing other things is a piano recording that features wonderfully lush timbre and some delightful tunes.

This one is The Disney Piano Collection by Hirohashi Makiko and to me it makes a lot of other piano recordings sound a little washed out.
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chilli42
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I have tick skin so if I get beat up for stating the obvious I can handle it.  It does not matter how much I spend on a piece of new gear or a tweak, the single biggest contribution to my listening pleasure is the quality of the recording.  Why were so many poor quality LP’s and CD’s produced?  Maybe it was the low opinion record companies had for their customers … I don’t know.

I have heard a couple of the new PS Audio Octave records releases and have to say they are really well done.  Pity they don’t release on Vinyl as well.
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elliottbnewcombjr
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Almost anything recorded by Rudy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudy_Van_Gelder

When I weeded the 4,000 LP’s I inherited, often faced with 20 of the same primary artist, wanting to keep perhaps only 3, I flipped em over, checked who else was playing, where, when, and the engineers involved. I kept all that Rudy was involved with without hesitation.

Some feel differently, what I know is: I discovered him when I looked sideways at my friends and said "whoever recorded this knew what they were doing", grabbed the sleeve to find the answer, which was often Rudy.



jafant
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Van Halen - s/t
blackbag20
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OP! Interesting question.

DF’s Kamikiriad is a masterpiece for recording reproduction ... along with Brother’s In Arms, let’s see ...The Wall, perhaps another.

Some groups change through the years: Rush had a couple albums, Moving Pictures (probably the pinnacle of its recordings), Signals is commendable. Then its recordings went into an era that lack lower-end presence, ala Presto, Power Windows, Roll The Bones ... fortunately the live recordings of same work atoned for previous sins!

Have appreciated Miles Davis’ work ... some live! Good stuff!!

Perhaps the flip-side of your question might prove an interesting query


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