What is the best sounding vinyl?


Please post your recommendations.

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klimt

Raul,

I like your list of record companies.  Another company to add to the list in this thread is Groove Note.  

I have a lot of favorites. As others mentioned check out Analogue Productions. Rhino Reserve and Rhino High-Fidelity are great. I've also purchased a few of the new Vinylphyle records and they are great. Look into those labels as a start. MOFI has some good stuff too, they master things more on the analytical side imo. 

Analogue has a sound and we like it.  I suspect that it is this sound, and not any defect in digital recording, that makes some favor vinyl.  I have a few Mo-Fi one step records and they sound good.  It turns out they were mastered from digital files.  I doubt that digitalization did much harm.

Having heard some of the master tapes on R2R, I can vouch for the best quality transfers from the master tapes on the Italian label - Audio Nautes. 
The care taken on the transfers of the recording into the lacquer, and then onto vinyl is by far the most exquisite I have seen. The packaging and inserts beyond doubt are the best and no one comes close to them. 
warning- they are dear, but it is the closest you get to the master. 
I came across this label when visiting the Munich Hifi show a couple of years back.

i was fortunate to meet Fabio the owner, who was demonstrating the CD, the Glass CD, the LP and then the master tape in a room. By far the best experience I have ever had on software.

They are working on the Belafonte at Carnegie 45rpm one sided and one step pressing. It will be the ultimate if you do not have a great reel to reel set up.

Do Google them and check them out. They mainly cover the classics from the classical and jazz genre.