Three best audiophile CD/LP in your collection


Can everyone share the list of the three best audiophile SACD/LP/CD from his collection regardless of genre ? IT's so difficult to find the real good sounding recording.
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So many to list but I'll throw a few oddballs out and not include classics many of which have already been mentioned. All of the following are Mofi's:

- Warren Zevon Excitable Boy, James Taylor JT, Bill Withers Greatest Hits, Chicago CTA, Dire Straits Communique, Atlanta Rhythm Section Champagne Jam, Beatles Abbey Rd, Poco Legend, Kinks Misfits, Al Stewart Year of the Cat / Time Passages, Jim Croce You Don't Mess Around With Jim, George Benson Breezin', Pretenders Learning to Crawl

Kind of Blue  Miles Davis  Acoustic Sounds UHQR

Gaucho  Steely Dan  Original first pressing

If Only I Could Remember My Name  David Crosby  Original first pressing

 

Miles Davis - Nefertiti (SACD)

Roxy Music - Avalon (SACD)

Donald Fagan - The Night Fly (SACD)

Blood Sweat & Tears - Child Is Father To The Man (SACD)

A few favorites from my SACD collection.

Reiner/CSO - Scheherazade RCA/Victor Living Stereo LP (AP)

Blood, Sweat, and Tears S/T (second album) MoFi One Step LP

Bill Frissell - Nashville Nonesuch LP

 

I have plenty more than 3!

This is just a start.

FM - Direct-to-Disc (also known as "Headroom") 1978 (vinyl)/ Canadian prog rock band recorded this mostly instrumental live in the studio, direct-to-disc. Very dynamic, and clean, with good imaging. Musically, it is prog, space-rock, and a bit of fusion, with some great violin playing. 

 

Ernst Krenek - Static and Ecstatic 1979 (vinyl)/ YMMV, musically speaking, due to this being pretty "thorny" sounding atonal classical music. Extremely good soundstage and imaging. On my system, I can easily imaging myself getting up from my listening chair and walking into the soundstage and stealing a bow from one of the violinist. Very 3d and open soundstage. 

 

Augusta Read Thomas - EOS: Goddess of Dawn 2016 (CD) / Undoubtedly modern classical music, but more approachable than the previously mentioned Ernst Krenek. The piece has universally positive reviews, and the recording has been called a sonic wonder. Huge open soundstage, with some of the best recorded percussion.

 I could list a large number of the recordings on the ECM jazz label, vinyl or CD. 

Their recordings are pretty universally open, spacious, dynamic and clean. Back in their vinyl days, they used the best quality virgin vinyl available, so they are dead quite. They also made the transition to digital recording fairly painlessly, so their CD releases have also been very good. 

Mostly famous for Keith Jarrett’s great recordings, like Koln Concerts, but there is so much more they have to offer.

Gallery - S/T (1981) / Wonderful chamber-jazz. Contemplative and melancholy. Cello, oboe, vibes, drums, bass.

 

Craig Taborn - Daylight Ghosts (2016) CD / One of the best modern jazz pianists. Creative, loads of chops, interesting composer. 

Piano, tenor sax, bass, drums.