What labels are the best sonically for detail and quality???

fitmartin · « **on:** 23 Dec 2013, 09:11 pm »

What recorded music labels have the best sonics? as in CD for my system?

Happy healthy New Year!

Martin Michael

rockadanny · « **Reply #1 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 09:19 pm »

I think you can usually count on ECM and Legacy.

Carl V · « **Reply #2 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 09:26 pm »

FIM, Audioquest, RR, POPE Music, Water Lily, XRCD, OPUS,CHESKY, Stereophile
amongst many others.....
bear in mind HOLT's inverse law of recording quality & musicianship ...or personal taste.

liddown · « **Reply #3 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 09:44 pm »

Stockfisch Records..... Chris Jones or Sara K....

fitmartin · « **Reply #4 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 10:46 pm »

Quote from: rockadanny on 23 Dec 2013, 09:19 pm

I think you can usually count on ECM and Legacy.

Thanks, I have a few acoustic jazz ECM and love them!

fitmartin · « **Reply #5 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 10:48 pm »

Quote from: Carl V on 23 Dec 2013, 09:26 pm

FIM, Audioquest, RR, POPE Music, Water Lily, XRCD, OPUS,CHESKY, Stereophile
amongst many others.....
bear in mind HOLT's inverse law of recording quality & musicianship ...or personal taste.

Have a couple Audioquest too!
are they still available to purchase, mine are from the 90's???

fitmartin · « **Reply #6 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 10:49 pm »

Quote from: liddown on 23 Dec 2013, 09:44 pm

Stockfisch Records..... Chris Jones or Sara K....

A friend of mine in Calgary told me about Stockfisch...can you order them here in North America?

jtwrace · « **Reply #7 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 11:04 pm »

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fitmartin · « **Reply #8 on:** 23 Dec 2013, 11:09 pm »

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Thanks!!!

dB Cooper · « **Reply #9 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 02:44 am »

ECM +1

Vinnie R. · « **Reply #10 on:** 24 Dec 2013, 09:47 pm »

Good topic and good list so far!

See this link as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Audiophile_record_labels

Happy Holidays!

Vinnie

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #11 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 12:07 am »

Visit the Mapleshade site and see if anything floats your boat. The guy records in the parlor of his big house, I think, and shuns dynamic compression. His CD's are very alive! Mostly jazz. Some ethnic folk music.

fitmartin · « **Reply #12 on:** 25 Dec 2013, 02:11 am »

Quote from: jimdgoulding on 25 Dec 2013, 12:07 am

Visit the Mapleshade site and see if anything floats your boat. The guy records in the parlor of his big house, I think, and shuns dynamic compression. His CD's are very alive! Mostly jazz. Some ethnic folk music.

Thank you I shall...much appreciation

rockadanny · « **Reply #13 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 12:42 am »

Esoteric

dflee · « **Reply #14 on:** 26 Dec 2013, 03:16 am »

Sony has a pretty good track record.
For classical, Phillips, Deutsche Grammophon and Archiv are great labels.

Don

Dobs · « **Reply #15 on:** 7 Jan 2014, 03:27 pm »

I don't listen much CD, but I like Naim and Reference Recording label.

brh · « **Reply #16 on:** 10 Jan 2014, 06:31 pm »

The old classical recordings for Denon are excellent, they dabbled a bit in single point recording, and those are spectacular. And, while on the subject of single point recording, MA Recordings has some high quality stuff as well.

JerryLove · « **Reply #17 on:** 10 Jan 2014, 08:00 pm »

http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/index.php?sort=dr&order=desc

jimdgoulding · « **Reply #18 on:** 10 Jan 2014, 08:06 pm »

All of the Scandanavian labels that I have. Er, on vinyl, anyways.

ss397 · « **Reply #19 on:** 10 Jan 2014, 08:41 pm »

You should have one or two Mapleshade and Chesky disks.