Suggestions for albums with good sound quality

I took Mike Oldfield - Incantations to the record shop when I bought my last hi-fi.

Tomita has some of the blandest production it's been my displeasure to hear since I last heard a Rondo Veneziano album my Dyson vacuum cleaner has more dynamics than Pictures AT AN Exhibition... but hey-ho life goes on and it all pales into insignificance ... and I can say this "because" I've seen a photograph of AN EIGHT TRACK that was made in TAIWAN... when you experience the "whole" thing performed on STAGE by an albino elephant improvising a Tibetan nose flute without a safety net in a constant stream of constipation, where you get the full benefit of a really numb posterior that it turns itself over, figuratively, in your stomach so your feet face south while your head is still facing an uncertain past while worrying whether you left the gas on under the leftover right over left chilli you were reheating for your supper only then can you truly say that music as progressed and "has" become progressive by the very act "of" progressing because what the majority of folks over "there" don't hear and what they don't, literally, appreciate "is" that progress is not progression that progresses but "a" programme of prognostic progenies prognosticating prognathism because I've... bean tins you people wouldn't believe... Attic Thoughts for hire off the shoulder of Brian... I watched ice-creams glitter in the park near the Tanz Der Leming mate. All those... moments... will be last in line, like [blows nose] gears... in... train. Time to whrrrr... of a bicycle built for click you see, this is my life, it always will be, nothing else, just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!...

Dean wrote: Tomita has some of the blandest production it's been my displeasure to hear since I last heard a Rondo Veneziano album my Dyson vacuum cleaner has more dynamics than Pictures AT AN Exhibition... but hey-ho life goes on and it all pales into insignificance ... and I can say this "because" I've seen a photograph of AN EIGHT TRACK that was made in TAIWAN... when you experience the "whole" thing performed on STAGE by an albino elephant improvising a Tibetan nose flute without a safety net in a constant stream of constipation, where you get the full benefit of a really numb posterior that it turns itself over, figuratively, in your stomach so your feet face south while your head is still facing an uncertain past while worrying whether you left the gas on under the leftover right over left chilli you were reheating for your supper only then can you truly say that music as progressed and "has" become progressive by the very act "of" progressing because what the majority of folks over "there" don't hear and what they don't, literally, appreciate "is" that progress is not progression that progresses but "a" programme of prognostic progenies prognosticating prognathism because I've... bean tins you people wouldn't believe... Attic Thoughts for hire off the shoulder of Brian... I watched ice-creams glitter in the park near the Tanz Der Leming mate. All those... moments... will be last in line, like [blows nose] gears... in... train. Time to <font size="1" color="#999999">whrrrr... o<span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2;">f a bicycle built for </span><span style="line-height: 1.2;"><font size="1" color="#cccccc">click </span><span style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.2;">y</span>ou see, this is my life, it always will be, nothing else, just us, the cameras, and those wonderful people out there in the dark!...

Are you feeling Ok, boss? Perhaps we could match up your lyrics with some computer composed music. Or maybe not.






"Doing the right thing is never superfluous."

Catcher10 wrote: Yes...Steely Dan Aja was my first choice. Recording brilliance with regard to overall sonic brilliance and instrument details. Tubular Bells (Vinyl bliss) Peter Gabriel~So (That CD is amazing) EW&F~All n All (Vinyl, the horn section kills it everytime!) Steven Wilson~The Raven blah, blah (Vinyl, insane mastering by Alan Parsons) Marillion~Brave (Vinyl, remix issue from 2013) Brilliant, the emtion just oozes. Madaonna~Like A Virgin (CD, original DDD issue) No not prog, although she was progressive for what she did to music. The SQ is pristine, the drumming is tight and cranking this one is well called for.

Spooky Catch. Same picks as mine except for you know who. (I never did like Steven Wilson solo.)   

Beethoven's Complete Overtures (Masur - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) - What a must!!  Majestic sound quality.

Edited by Rick Robson - September 16 2014 at 16:53

I also think Marillion would help a lot in showing off your fine sound system

I thought the last Ayreon album sounded AMAZING

KingBarbarossa wrote: Wow, I would not have expected so much diversion in all these suggestions. Also interesting that many of you are still recommending older recordings. In my experience they can sound beautiful, some remasters with added clarity on top, but would not necessarily be able to fill out the dynamic range (especially the bottom end) of a modern HiFi system. This is why I tried to limit the suggestions to newer recordings.

I'd say Dark Side Of The Moon which is quite famous also for its sound in itself.

Rednight wrote: Put on the Japanese import CD (or if you can find it, an original first-isssue vinyl pressing) of Chris Squire's Fish Out of Water. Life changing.

i'll have to check my LP to see if it's an original. I never paid too close attention to the sonic quality of that album.