Your Not-So-Obvious Best Fidelity LPs

When I was purchasing vinyl looking for sound I was told names who engineered the record and they always produced top notch sound.  
A few names to look for include;

Glyn John’s - a few albums he engineer were The Who albums Who’s Next and By The Numbers,  Eric Clapton’s Slowhand, Rolling Stones albums Let it Bleed, Exile on Mainstreet and Beggars Banquet; the Bands Stagefright, The Eagles Desperado, On The Border, The Eagles debut album white label Asylum 1972;  Hrahm/Nash’s album Song for Beginners;  Rod Stewart’s Never A Dull Memory and one of Led  Zeppelin’s debut album

 

Rhett Davies engineered Dire Straits debut album 1977;  Roxy Music Avalon, Manifesto, Flesh and Blood, Viva Roxy Music Live 

 

Rudy Van Gelder -  Freddie Hubbard’s Red Clay, Grover Washington’s All The Kings Men 1973, Wes Montgomery’s California Dreaming

 

Stephen Barncard - Brewers & Shipley’s Tariko, and Crosby Stills Nash & Young’s Deja Vu, David Crosby’s only album If Only I Could Remember My Name 

Kenneth Wilkinson’s Citizen Kane Soundtrack 

Bernard Herrmman - The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmman and his Mysterious Film Woro album 

Jazz in the Pawnshop for sure.  You won’t be disappointed if you can find it. 
Audio Symphony #1 and #2 both albums I use to show off my sound system 

some of my top sonic albums I use to show off my system;

Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s Lucky Man

Led Zeppelin 11

Dire Straits Love Over Gold

Joni Mitchel’s Blue

America’s America 

Neil Young’s Harvest

Alan Parson’s I Robot

Dave Brubeck’s Right Now

Pink Floyd’s The Wall 

Santana’s Abraxas 

Dave Crusin Discovered Again a direct to disc recording 

Bob and Ray’s Comedy (super sounding)

 

any Super Disc recordings

Just a few 🙂

After fairly recent discovery of the band Shpongle, I'm sure I want all of their releases on LP and CDs as well.

IMO, this thread got off of it's intended, stated purpose early on 

@slaw I think you mean just going after the not-so-obvious good pressings.  What’s obvious or less so is certainly subjective.  I know everyone here has good intentions of just passing on the news of great sounding recordings.  
Keep it going!

I recently picked up a 1981 MoFi copy of The Moody Blues Days of Future Passed and it is pretty astounding.

The recent reissue of  Zappa's The Grand Wazoo sounds fantastic, although my OG sounds pretty sweet as well.

Joni has been mentioned, but not For The Roses which has both rich, dark chords but also the silver shimmer that she is known for. 

Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden's Beyond the Missouri Sky is sublime, beautiful music lovingly recorded.

Lorna Hunt's All In One Day is an album I play for guests that always elicits a smile, fun music recorded in a big old church.