Audio companies or boutique labels for good SQ LPs?

Audioquest, Vandersteen, and Water Lily (get the album A Meeting By The River, guitar by Ry Cooder). You mention Sheffield: have you ever heard a direct-to-disc LP? Find one, any one!

Back in the 1970’s FMI (Fulton Musical Industries) produced some great-sounding LP’s on owner Robert Fulton’s ARK label. Fulton was not only a great loudspeaker designer, but a recording engineer as well.

The ARK LP’s sound fantastic (incredible inner detail and transparency, and the sound of the very large rooms in which the recordings were made very evident), but the music may not be of interest to many audiophiles: the recordings are of local (to Fulton) Minnesota church choirs and pipe organists. They are also very hard to find. My copies are not for sale. ;-)

AudioQuest has some really good blues records, Doug MacLeod, Terry Evans, Sam McLain, all of them being made with AudioQuest wire. Sheffield, if you can find Michael Ruff Speaking in Melodies, just get it. Reference Recordings is another good label.

But really, if you want seriously good sound quality uber alles, https://better-records.com/collections is the place.

Good to know about Audioquest. They don’t have LPs on their website. I have asked for a title list.
Will also ask Richard V.

@mglik: Just be aware---I don't think Better Recrods can provide you with a White Hot Stamper LP of anything on Audioquest, Vandersteen, or Water Lily.

The A Meeting By The River not only features excellent recorded sound quality (the label's owner/recording engineer Kav Alexander is very talented, and has extremely high standards. He had his recorder's electronics replaced with circuits designed and built by the recently-departed Tim de Paravicini of EAR-Yoshino. TdP did the same in Pink Floyd's studio in London.), but also features the playing of Ry Cooder, some people's favorite living guitarist.

If you're not impressed by Reference Recordings lps, I have no prospects for you.

I have a couple LP’s by Analog Productions that sound nice. The most recent buy is the Wonderful Sounds of Female Vocals. It’s a double album with an interesting selection of artists and genres.

Oops, spell check. It’s Analogue Productions.

I look for the Japanese editions.
always better than the U.S. tripe pressings.


 Have a Japanese copies of only a few LPs’
they best the cd, and most other U.S. presses, and U.K., etc. 

   my Japanese copy of Anthem’s  Tightrope, is amazing, deep bass, guitar, vocals, it’s like it was recorded perfect,
the cd, u.s. LP, it’s not even close!
the Japanese quality of music is second to none. 

Joe Harley is the magic behind the AQ records… so look for his recent and prolific work for Blue Note and Tone Poet.
You should be able to search Discogs by label and find most of what was issued. Enjoy your quest. Beef up the D to D with a few Sheffield gems…. You will learn about headroom in a hurry…. Fun :-)
enjoy
glad you asked