R2d4

[martinimaster]

Name your best "audiophile" album. Mine is Patricia Barber "Nightclub"

[SVL]

Hmm... if by an "audiophile" album you mean an album with great sound, but mediocre/crappy music, then IMO Nightclub is not it - it does have several decent songs:). With that approach, some of the stuff from Chesky Records would fit the bill though. I used to have an Oregon album that they did - sounded great, but what a dismal thing musically:(.

If I had to choose one album with amazing sonics and a great performance (I hope this is how they choose R2D4's in Stereophile), my pick would be

Ella Fitzgerald Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph on Classic Records Gold CD.

[Ronflugelguy]

That's easy, Sheffield Labs Dave Gruisin "Discovered Again", great sound and a great perforomance, one of the only few!!!!!

[martinimaster]

by audiophile,I would say that the songs don't have to be crappy, but that the sound is first and foremost. My favorite album taking the material into consideration would be Nat King Cole,"Love Is The Thing".

[ArneW]

Handel's «Water Musick», played by the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra conducted by Nicholas McGegan (Harmonia Mundi HMU 7010).

[mcow1]

And for post number 100. I think cuurently I will have to go with the DVD-A of Grateful Dead Wokingman's Dead. Not the DVD-A version on there but either the 5.1 or stereo high-res. Garcia' accoustic work is "in your lap" sounds like he's in the room with ya.

[PsychFan]

The one that comes immediately to mind is David Crosby's If I Could Only Remember My Name. I have a near-mint early Atlantic "1841 Broadway"-label LP.

I think this is a really great record sonically (the acoustic guitars are captured with such clarity), but I've never been so hot on the music itself -- apart from "Traction in the Rain," a song I could float away on quite happily ...

[Dave]

Well I'm generally not a jazz fan like most here but my #1 album for sound only has to be MFSL's Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping UD1 or Steves Eagles Greatest Hits DCC.

I know, I know, allright it's 2. The top 10 would've been alot easier..........Well maybe.:D