CD getting as good as LPs - recommendations


Having bought a German Audionet Art V-2 CD-transport anda Chord DAC64, I was delighted how good CD can sound these days. I think the rigid affirmations "CDs never can sound as good as LP" no longer hold true. There's by now a lot
of excellently produced, or remastered CDs (not SACD, DVD-Audio) that, given good CD-players, sound excellent, sometimes better than the old LPs.
Good examples are a lot of remastered CDs from the EMI "Great Recordings of the Century"-series. Then, there is the XRCD-series from JVC. In Germany,even high-end-die-hard-vinyl-pope Attila Csampai was forced to admit that they sounded better than the original LPs on his state-of-the-art turntable system. I did a vinyl-CD-comparison with a vinyl-fan, and even fooled him when playing from CD. Are there goners which made the same experience? And what are your recommendations for excellently recorded, or remastered CDs that make you smile?
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I do believe that the only thing which may convince dyed in the wool lp fans would be to have lp surface noise added as a form mega-dither to cds so that they would not miss the one significant characteristic of lps. I have received last Saturday my first three XRCDs and the sound is excellent. Due to the age of the original recording one does have a fair amount of tape hiss, but I have always felt that hiss was not as bad as ticks and pops, since the sound is continuous and not made up of sharp attacks. I still find that my el-cheapo Sony SACD player sounds a tiny bit better than cds, but the difference is so slight that the refusal by almost every audiophile to go for multi-channel sound allied to the infinitesimal gap between the best cds and most sacds does not bode well for the acceptance of the SACD format. The two XRCDs that I would recommend, based on the very small sample that I have heard, are Kelly Blue by Wynton Kelly and Art Pepper + Eleven.
There are following label that have great quality but unfortunately not like vinyl:

CMP even early ones sound great, Concord Jazz, ECM, Nonesuch...

Make sure to get original and non-club versions.
Also some of the experimental and small record companies such as Crammed.

I also figured that eropean versions of CD sound much better than US(probably due to the pressing quality i.e. less flimsy, thicker...)

Epic-Japan, EMI-Japan are superb.
For the experimental stuff I buy anything that is on Avan-Japan.

Chesky label solely oriented on sound and spirit of a voice and/or instrument but not the music... Sounds superb though.

Patricia Barber's last albums recorded too bass-y where acoustic bass so-loved by all audiophiles dominates even over her ehem... voice.

In general I want to point out that MUSIC is the ONLY thing that should be considered during recording and NOT the sound of instrument and/or voice.
I enjoy the Decca Legends series of classical remasters, but then my system is significantly lower resolution than yours, so I can't say how they sound to you.
Decca has always captured a good balance between spaciousness and imaging that I very much like for classical music.