What is the best sounding vinyl?

I thought this was about recordings with the most near perfect sound quality. Not about recordings with the greatest performances or best musicians. For example, Sheffield often recorded mediocre musicians. “Blues and abstract truth” is a very good recording but not technically among the best recordings. Music on it is sublime if you like jazz, as I do.

Dekay,

I agree that Windham Hill stuff is well recorded, but most of the music is not what I like, the exception being Michael Hedge’s “Aerial Boundaries.”

Until recently, I have found good and bad regardless of the process I used to find "Good Vinyl"  Whether I used type of vinyl, weight of vinyl, studio, engineer, pressing plant, etc...  Today, I use AI to start my searches.  When an album comes to mind that I want to own, I start by using AI to tell me what are the best versions of the album.  It presents me with a summary of which releases are the best and which pressings of that release are considered the best sonically.  UK, German, US, Japan, of a particular release are summarized.  Then it lists which versions are the best including remaster/re-releases and engineer.  It separates original release from re-issues and re=masters and tells which is most authentic and considered the best for "Audiophiles".  I use that information to start my own research and decide what i want to buy.  

As I understand it, AI has a great system and listens to music all day long. Not. Selecting sonically special LPs has to be experiential by its very nature and is ultimately subjective. What AI says is a distillation of all the opinions it can find on the internet, valid or phony.

Larryi:

Yes, Hedges and Winston come to mind as well as "a starry night' or something like that.

DeKay