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Posted: December 29 2017 at 21:42

Personally i find electronic artists to have some of the most sophisticated production techniques

My favorites include (but not limited to....)

Infected Mushroom

Shpongle

Air

Coil

Tangerine Dream

Klaus Schulze

it has to do how carefully each sound is mixed, recorded, etc

the newer releases are obviously more stellar on newer recording systems

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Posted: December 29 2017 at 15:44

Disregarding the whole 'which edition/remaster/mix is better' here are some personal faves in terms of production:

Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within
Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina
Steven Wilson - Insurgents
Ryley Walker - Primrose Green
Ange - Emile Jacotey
Hooffoot - s/t
Jon Hassell w Brian Eno - Fourth World: Possible Musics vol.1
Klaus Schulze - X
Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
David Axelrod - Songs of Innocence
Kayo Dot - Coffins on Io
Paatos - Timeloss
Björn J:Son Lindh - Från Storstad til Grodspad
The Enid - The Seed & The Sower (more specifically the monumental track Reverberations)
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Alan Goraguer - La Planete Sauvage
Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder
King Crimson - Disciplin

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Posted: December 29 2017 at 14:36

As far as original issues some have been mentioned already like Supertramp~CotC, Steely Dan~Aja, PF~DSOtM. My original copy of Marillion~Misplaced Childhood is excellent, also The Cars~Candy-O and Yes~Fragile.

Since pretty much all new recordings are saved as 24bit digital masters now, the downstream processing plays a vital role in a new issue sounding "excellent". Whether the format is CD, digital hi-rez file or vinyl...The CD has easily become the lower SQ of all formats today. I have done countless A/B comparisons with CD and Vinyl in my system and CD loses each time....again on my system, YMMV.

For new vinyl issues I'd suggest:
Peter Gabriel's I-IV, plus So and Us. Absolutely steller productions, remixing and cut as 45RPM...

Steven Wilson's The Raven and Insurgentes, crazy dynamics and resolution.

The reissues of Can's Tago Mago and Ege Bamyasi are magical. The bass notes are deep and clean, nothing muddy about the mix, these are all done from the original tapes.

Porcupine Tree, pretty much all of them......Deadwing is finally getting redone for Feb release as well as In Absentia. I have both on pre-order, I have In Absentia original issue and it is already an excellent one, but has been out of print for awhile. Dot3 is fantastic for testing detail of bass notes on ur system.....

There are many others by Riverside, Haken and Marillion. Brave is magical, out of print though, I could get $300 bucks for it prolly....never sell!

Also it does matter your system whether you will be able to hear these records in all their glory, another subject though.

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Posted: December 26 2017 at 05:56

Albums by other bands like Dårskapens Monotoni (Kaipa DC) or Entering the Spectra (Karmakanic) also apply.

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Posted: December 25 2017 at 16:52

^ There you are - totally agree ! (thought you were thinking any other band but FK...)

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Posted: December 25 2017 at 16:31

Quinino wrote:

^ Any example ?

Stardust We Are, Humanizzimo and the entirety of Back in the World of Adventures all sound very crisp. Great bass, awesome drum sound, lots of clarity.

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Posted: December 25 2017 at 16:26

^ Any example ?

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Posted: December 25 2017 at 16:23

Anything mixed by Roine.

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Posted: December 25 2017 at 16:18

Just beware of brick walled CD's, the loudness war has ruined soooo much.

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Posted: December 25 2017 at 12:01

I'm not an audiophile.....my system is still the once I purchased 35 years ago...though I have had to change the cd player once...mid priced std equipment..Onkyo table, Onkyo receiver/amp, Sony cd player , Ortofon S4 cartridge and original Advent 3 speakers.........but these albums always sounded good to me...but as many have said it depends on one's ear also...

Joni Mitchell -Blue

Neil Young- After the Goldrush

Traffic= Low Spark

Happy The Man- Crafty Hands

IQ- Frequency and Dark Matter

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Edited by dr wu23 - December 25 2017 at 12:04

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Posted: December 24 2017 at 17:15

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

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A friend of mine has perfect pitch and worked for some equipment companies as test listener. Through this he met Mark Hollis, who is very much into audiophile sound. In any case, the last three Talk Talk albums sound very special to me (can't claim to be a gifted audiophile myself though).
Other artists that impress my through sound are Holger Czukay (The New Millenium, Good Morning Story) and Battles.

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Posted: December 22 2017 at 07:51

All of the Caravan remasters are incredible, especially Live at the New Symphonia. The recording is incredible. Music's not too shabby either.

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Posted: December 21 2017 at 21:04

hellogoodbye wrote:

Cd is for audiophile, Vinyl for music lover.

Sorry, but that is nonsense.

Edited by Mascodagama - December 21 2017 at 21:04

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Posted: December 21 2017 at 20:24

There seem to be many stellar recordings to choose from nowadays. Here are a few which have been either impeccably engineered or brought to life again through great remastering, IMHO.

Original mixes:

Jukka Gustavson-Toden Toistoa
Solution- Cordon Bleu
Ashra- New Age of Earth, Blackouts
Stackridge- The Man With The Bowler Hat, Friendliness

Remasters:

Starcastle-S/T, Fountains of Light
Wigwam- Being
Caravan-In The Land of The Grey and The Pink
Solis Lacus (Belgian jazz)- S/T
Patto-Hold Your Fire

I agree with the earlier poster who said that the Steely Dan remasters were fantastic, the same could be said for 'The Nightfly' by Donald Fagen, though it was originally a digital master, in 1982! A good quality DAC can also give your music that extra something.

Edited by synthonaplinth - December 21 2017 at 20:25

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Posted: September 13 2017 at 19:06

+1 Aja

+1 Alan Parsons Project

+1 Anything Conny Plank

Depois Do Fim by Bacamarte is very well mixed.

Bowie's Berlin trilogy.

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden, Oldfield - Tubular Bells, Kraftwerk - Ralf und Florian are always among the first 10 albums I listen to to test new audio equipment along with Aja and Alan Parsons Project's I Robot. Miles Davis' Bitches Brew is another must.

Also this. Such a unique guitar tone which cannot be faithfully reproduced with poor audio (youtube doesn't help):

Now can we talk about overproduced albums I feel like I have more examples there. LOL

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Posted: September 13 2017 at 18:00

Anything by the Alan Parsons Project. Production value is top notch by one of the best engineers in the biz.

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Posted: September 13 2017 at 17:03

Absolutely agree with the Trilogy/BSS assessment. (huge ELP fan BTW).

But the first one that popped into my head was Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth. Stellar recording !

I once had a Half Speed Mastered vinyl of ELP's Pictures at an Ex. It made a huge difference on my platter compared to the regular release which I also had.

Ahhhh, those were the days.

Edited by JD - September 14 2017 at 07:32

Thank you for supporting independently produced music

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Posted: September 13 2017 at 14:19

Almost all of the albums from the 70s recorded on Decca and Deram labels feature awesome recordings. Philips too, for the most part.

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Posted: September 13 2017 at 12:09

Cd is for audiophile, Vinyl for music lover.

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Posted: September 13 2017 at 08:20

I avoid CDs and digital recordings as much as possible. Don't know if you're into Krautrock but there are quite a few decent recordings that I have on vinyl. Grobschnitt Solar Music Live, Guru Guru Live '78, Neu!. A lot of stuff on the Brain label sounds terrific. Not going to go through titles but Conny Plank did some great work during the seventies. I have yet to hear a Canadian pressing that sounds anything near what you're looking for. The Canadian pressings no matter how well engineered the recording are the worst.