A music thread for diehard analog guys that get great sound from cd

I remember discovering MapleShade CDs long ago. I was really impressed with the recordings... I bought them all. I told a friend, who bought a few and said that the music was terrible (on the ones he bought), he couldn't understand why I recommended them. Then I realized that I was so impressed with the recordings... I wasn’t listening to the music... he was right (on some of the albums anyway).

I somehow missed this thread. One CD I have that features great sound AND music is:

- A Meeting By The River (on Water Lily Acoustics), an album of instrumental duets by Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt. Recorded by Kavichandran Alexander on a tube reel-to-reel machine (the electronics of which were custom designed and installed by Tim DeParavicini of EAR-Yoshino fame). Absolutely stunning!

I have the lp @bdp24   The lp sounds so natural. I forgot about this thread myself. My contribution is Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers "Live at The Fillmore 1997".

Wonderful!

A story I have told before. At the ’96 Stereophile show at the N.Y. Waldorf, Pierre Sprey came into my room (Jadis) and handed me a Mapleshade cd of his, to demo. It was ’’Big Sweet N’ Blue"..."Norris Turney with his Quartet". There are a few tracks that are OUTSTANDING, all engineered by Pierre and digitally mastered by Bob Katz. Inserted between the front of the case and the booklet, was a printed label that read: Norris Turney: Demo Tracks # 1,2,10. Without question, the musical compositions and performances are great! I have a few others as well. 

I called Mapleshade one Saturday morning and Pierre answered. We talked for more than thirty minutes without any hint of him needing to be doing something else.