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What is considered one of the finest recordings ever for audiophiles?

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What is the one album that any audiophile must listen to where they can get the finest recordings of all time?

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One of the greatest masterpieces which every audiophile must have is ‘John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman’ by John Coltrane. The reason to this is the very high praise which is due to the aesthetics and the almost perfect beauty of its recording, a record which allows lovers of sounds to appreciate very many things about that music.
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The #1 best sounding album of all time is A Charlie Brown Christmas by the Vince Guaraldi Trio .  The space between the instruments, and the way the drums are mic'd . It's just perfection.
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I'm an audiophile and the one album that bubbles to the top for me always is Roxy Music's AVALON. What an incredible soundscape and three-dimensionality. The songwriting is superb and it's one of the best concept albums ever.
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Dave Brubeck - Time Out, Miles Davis - Kind of Blue and a number of other classic Columbia jazz records done in the 50s/60s at Columbia 30th St. Studios in NYC (especially newer re-issues mixed from the original 3-tracks) have amazing tonality and sense of 3D space. That room was just amazing.
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I truly think that Depeche Mode - Violator is one of the best sounding albums of all time (in addition to being one of the best). Produced by Flood and mixed by Francois Kevorkian, it sounds just as fresh in 2023 as it did in 1990. Absolutely mind-blowing sound.
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I’m sure somebody’s already mentioned it, but The Alan Parsons Project “I Robot” has so many astonishing and engaging sonic moments from start to finish. I love listening to that album.
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Donald Fagan, Night Fly -  The sheer aural quality and clarity of this record always takes me aback. And its got Larry Carlton on guitar
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The opening bars of Aja made me buy this record. Stunning sound.
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A no-brainer to me: Rickie Lee Jones’ self-titled debut album from 1979, absolute showcase of a good recording, can be both tight and lush, voice wonderfully caught, doesn’t get much better than that.
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Tom Petty’s “Wildflowers” record was used in one of my Berklee courses as a benchmark in pure sound recording. That record still blows me away!
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You blew me away with your #1 sounding album: John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman Thank-You
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