Audio companies or boutique labels for good SQ LPs?

Audioquest, Vandersteen, and Water Lily (get the album A Meeting By The River, guitar by Ry Cooder). You mention Sheffield: have you ever heard a direct-to-disc LP? Find one, any one!

Back in the 1970’s FMI (Fulton Musical Industries) produced some great-sounding LP’s on owner Robert Fulton’s ARK label. Fulton was not only a great loudspeaker designer, but a recording engineer as well.

The ARK LP’s sound fantastic (incredible inner detail and transparency, and the sound of the very large rooms in which the recordings were made very evident), but the music may not be of interest to many audiophiles: the recordings are of local (to Fulton) Minnesota church choirs and pipe organists. They are also very hard to find. My copies are not for sale. ;-)

AudioQuest has some really good blues records, Doug MacLeod, Terry Evans, Sam McLain, all of them being made with AudioQuest wire. Sheffield, if you can find Michael Ruff Speaking in Melodies, just get it. Reference Recordings is another good label.

But really, if you want seriously good sound quality uber alles, https://better-records.com/collections is the place.

Good to know about Audioquest. They don’t have LPs on their website. I have asked for a title list.
Will also ask Richard V.