Great sounding/recorded albums

Steely Dan's music is always technically perfect, often loved by musos but that's about it. Kind of the opposite to Springsteen which despite often dubious recording quality usually manages to connect on an emotional level.

His current album 'Western Stars' is a career highlight, even by sonic standards.
'Nebraska' is another, a real lo-fi back to basics classic.

As for 'Born to Run', one of the seminal 70s records, nothing will ever remove the endlessly overdubbed 'mud'.

@bdp24, not having heard all of Roy’s Monument recordings (but plenty of his compilations) I can say that his 1986 re-recording of his hits (In Dreams) is my favourite.

Apparently Monument had threatened to destroy the original  master tapes over some legal dispute so Roy went back into the studio to deliver this ‘gift’ to his fans.

Tirelessly beautiful sound throughout - and all the hits. Perhaps not the goto disc for the purists or those who were there first time around, but a near perfect record nevertheless. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Dreams:_The_Greatest_Hits