The problem is getting someone who both knows music and can identify good sound. The only guy I know who's written anything rating recordings on their sound quality is Howard Ferstler, and I wouldn't necessarily ask him which Beethoven 5 to buy.
For that matter, I'd take a bad recording of a good performance over the reverse any day of the week. And if I weren't prepared to go out and buy multiple versions of a piece, I wouldn't get hung up about whether I'd found the very best one--or whether a better one had come out since the guidebook I had consulted was published.
For that matter, I'd take a bad recording of a good performance over the reverse any day of the week. And if I weren't prepared to go out and buy multiple versions of a piece, I wouldn't get hung up about whether I'd found the very best one--or whether a better one had come out since the guidebook I had consulted was published.