High quality CDs

@rman9    what   @stuartk   said related to the MFSL hybrid SACDs.

I actually started listening to them (the red book layer) before I bought my SACD player, and some of them just blew me away due to the sonic quality (not just because I like the music as I have hybrids by other companies that I should like because of the music but they don't sound good).  I assume it is the mastering that they did with those hybrids.

But, as I typed previously, I am not sure that MFSL remastered any classical releases on SACD/red book hybrid.

BUT, I did a search on ebay using "MFSL classical CDs"  and there were quite a few that came up from the earlier days of MFSL.  I would only say that I own a lot of the earlier MFSL red book remasters, and not all of them are spectacular.

Lately, I have also been experimenting with the Japanese SHM remastered red book CDs and some of them (not all of them) sound pretty decent.  You might do a search on ebay using "classical SHM CDs."

Good luck on your quest for The Sound!

And once more (because my brain is working slow this afternoon) referring to what @stuartk typed: yes: definitely do a search on Music Direct’s site. Just type in SACD for your search engine and start scrolling through the pages. I have done that and seen quite a few classical releases on SACD hybrid. Just make SURE that if you order, what you order is DEFINITELY a hybrid (most of them are) and NOT a single layer SACD.

As of late I have been trying to develop a taste for both classical and jazz, and as an example of the former, I recently bought a couple of remastered by "Living Stereo" and "Opus" that were both hybrids. (Before "Living Stereo" got into hybrid SACDs they were also doing the 20 bit rd book classical remasters, ’Witches Brew’ was one, so you might want to do a search on ebay using that as a search engine also.)

@rman9 

My mistake!  immattewj is correct about MoFi not offering Clasical hybrid sacds. The Classical titles I've seen on Music Direct are on the Analogue Productions label:

https://www.musicdirect.com/music?#/+/0/score/desc/?tab=products&manufacturer_na_str=Analogue%20Productions

Vox Alia, BIS, Channel Classics, Harmonia Mundi, Astree, CPO, Chandos, Pentatone. . . there are plenty of labels that do terrific sounding classical recordings.  Even the big labels like Sony, DG, etc. make nice sounding recordings.  Many of the older LPs on such labels as DG sounded pretty crappy to me--thin and bright (e.g., 1970's DG recordings) and actually sound better in CD reissue form.   Classical is one of the few genres where recording quality in the digital era sounds quite good to me.  I listen mostly to my 3,000+ CDs of classical music much more than I do listening to my LPs of classical music.  

Many (but not all) BIS CDs are well recorded and mixed. They are not minimalist recordings but are clean. If you get them as downloads from eClassical.com, you can get a refund if you don’t like a particular release.

Oddly enough, given their origin as the low-priced label, Naxos has released some excellent-sounding recordings. The series of Malcolm Arnold symphonies was recorded by Chris Craker with a minimalist technique. Most of their guitar recordings -- I am thinking of the Laureate Series -- are recorded by Norbert Kraft, himself a fine guitarist and someone interested in minimalist recordings.