What is the best sounding vinyl?

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