Three best audiophile CD/LP in your collection

Most of my listening is to classical music, and I have far too many excellent sounding recordings to be able to single out three. What I would suggest you do, to the extent that you are interested in classical recordings, is to focus on labels that are known to produce consistently good sound, and choose particular recordings based on the music and, to the extent possible, the performances.

I would recommend the following labels as consistently providing excellent sounding recordings (although unfortunately some of them no longer exist):

Accent
Astree
Audiofon
Chesky
Dorian
Harmonia Mundi France
Hyperion
Lyrinx
M&K Realtime
Mercury Living Presence re-issues
North Star
Pierre Verany
Proprius
Reference Recordings
Sheffield Labs
Syrinx
Telarc (many are excellent; some will be disappointing)
Valois
Wilson Audio

Among non-classical recordings, I would single out "The Sheffield Track Record." I have it on the original direct-to-disk LP, but it is currently available on cd together with "The Sheffield Drum Record" (which I haven't heard). One of the ultimate demo disks.

Regards,
-- Al

Al, nice list of excellent labels. :-)

Among others I would add is "Harmonia Mundi USA" - the USA
labeled offerings from Harmonia Mundi, produced by Robina
Young and engineered by Peter McGrath, are wonderful and
shouldn't be missed.
.

I have about 100 albums that might qualify but these come to mind today.

Tomorrow might be entirely different.

Thick As A Brick (original US pressing)
Fragile (original US pressing)
Crime Of The Century (MFSL)

One more for the road:
Bookends (original US pressing)

YMMV

I have quite a few but of late it's Sonny Rollins "Way Out West (1957)" XRCD24 with "Saxophone Colossus (1956)" a close second. High on the list is Gene Ammons "Boss Tenor (1960)" XRCD. This is really ironic because these albums are damn near 60 years old but they sound so much better than any new music I have. Sound quality aside, this is some sweet ass music...soulful!

Shelly Manne and His Men Play Peter Gunn - I have this on OJC CD and original vinyl and it sounds great - I would love to see someone re-do this on 45rpm vinyl.

Blue Trane - the recent 45 RPM version is phenominal, and one of the best quality recordings in the RVG catalog, imho.

Pretty much anything on Sharp Nine Records.