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High quality CDs

Where can I find CDs with high quality recording, specifically classical.. More than 50% of the CDs that I buy with classical music, sounds so anemic and noisy when you crank up. Any suggestions will be really helpful. I prefer physical format over streaming.. 

rman9
immatthewj
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I am not really a fan of classical but I am finding the crop of MFSL hybrids to sound fantastic; unfortunately, I did a search on ebay for MFSL classical SACD and came up empty handed.  However, MFSL does have some classical red book issues out there, have you tried any of them?

rman9 OP
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@immatthewj thank you!! I forgot to mention the Luxman D03X that I have for CDs does not support SACDs, but it does play MQA CDs.. I just read, MFSL doesn't produce redbook CDs anymore :(

Have to keep looking..

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dweller
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Sounds like you need some tone controls. My former McIntosh C-22 preamp was good.

rman9 OP
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My current preamp is a Mcintosh C53 with 8 band equalizer, and that doesn't help. However, I am soon replacing the C53 with a Luxman C900U in June. The demo of the C900U at home considerably improved the CDs but would like to explore really good recording.. 

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