What are your favorite recordings that sound best to you?

@esputnix - regarding your statement

What would be the best sounding records you have ever listened to that sound best to you 

Mainly older recordings, many of them with clicks and pops, that fade into oblivion once the music starts. 

They are mainly tracks that centers around a vocalist(s) that have ethereal qualities supported by superb musicianship, all captured by sound engineers that really know their craft, to bring you a very life like representation of what was being recorded.

Artists like:

• Joni Mitchel
• Jethro Tull
• Steeleye span
• Chris Barber
• Paul Butterfiled
• John Mayall
• Rye Cooder
• Taj Mahal

There is a simplicity and rawness about their music that makes me return to them again and again and the harmonies of Jethro Tull and Steeleye Span are inspiring  - many modern artists could learn from them

Few artists today have that same impact - perhaps Ed Sheeran is about as close as it gets.

There is one Diana Krall album that brings her into my listening space, complete with piano.

It's amazing what a good system and a glass of Single Malt can do :-)

These are the artists that I return to over and over, because they make their music interesting each time I listen.

I'm sure there are many others.

Regards - Steve

My best sounding albums are the audiophile specialty recordings like the Mapleshade label or Sheffield Labs. But it may not be the best music or performance, that is a different subject. 

Dire Straits - On Every Street:

• When it Comes to You
• You and Your Friend
• Planet of New Orleans

Patricia Barber - Cafe Blue (45 RPM ONESTEP IMPEX):

• Taste of Honey
• Nardis

Charles Mingus - Ah Um:

• Goodbye Pork Pie Hat

Metallica - Metallica Black Album:

• Wherever I May Roam

David Crosby: "If I could only remember my name" now available on the 50th anniversary reissue.

Dire Straits: " Brothers in Arms" on the JVC XRCD2 issue.

Most of the Pat Metheny albums on ECM.

I own about 2500 LPs.  So at any given moment there are a few thousand LPs that I have not listened to "lately".  Seems to me that every time I pull out a few LPs that are not in regular rotation, I discover another gem.  Therefore, it would be utterly impossible to name one favorite. However, one can always bank on Reference Recordings, Sheffield, ECM, Pablo, Contemporary (for jazz), Riverside (for jazz), the latter day version of Impulse ("Jasmine"), and an occasional other oddball and surprising label to provide a memorable listening experience.  This is on either of my two audio systems using any of the 5 cartridges and tonearms currently mounted on 5 turntables.