whats the finest recorded cd you've heard?

Madonna - "American Life"
Tool - "10,000 Days"
Jennifer Warnes - "The Hunter"

"Peace, Back By Popular Demand" - Keb Mo
"Hope" - Hugh Masekela
"Nature" - Dave's True Story
"A Walk Across the Rooftops" - The Blue Nile

Any MA recordings. Better than XRCD, FIM or any others.

Most of my listening has been on vinyl, but among the hundred or so cd's in my collection I would say Dvorak's "New World Symphony," Chesky CD31, conducted by Jascha Horenstein, and recorded in 1962!

As has often been said, what counts is usually not which technology is used, but how well it is executed.

Regards,
-- Al

in no real order....

Several of Gordon Goodwins “big Phat Band” Cds… “Swingin’ For the Fences”, “XXL”
Fourplay, Bob James’ group, “HEARTFELT”… continues to impress.
The PBS broadcast soundtrack of lewis & Clark… mostly the narrative tracks.
The Flatlanders “Now it’s Now Again” … Going Away… and the title cut… but the whole album is done quite well.
Willie Nelson’s “it always will Be.”, title cut, and several others.
Hiroshima “Tokyo Underground”
Allison Kraus’ SACD “Live” double album… all of it.
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band – “Will The circle Be Unbroken”…. All iterations/editions I do prefer Vol 1 & Vol 2 more so than vol 3… all, however are more than good front to back.
Johny Lang “Lie to Me”.
Gatemouth Brown, “Back to Boogalusa”
John mayall “Along for the Ride” especially the track with otis rush.
Lyle Lovett’s “Pontiac” & “Joshua, Judges, Ruth”
DiMeola Plays Piazzola…. Al DiMeola.
Spyro Gyra - “In Modern Times” “20/20”

Dianah Krall's "Little girl Blue" in, "From This Moment on"... yo Yo's intro and exit are sintilating.

Best overall single cut that really impresses... Thomas hampson's rendition of Andrew Loyd Webers, "The Music of The Night" is the best I've heard far and away. hampson's voice has such range and emotion I find it hard not to use the repeat function on the console. Breath taking performance.