What is your personal reference audiophile recording (best sound quality)?

[accwai]

A few good ones I've accumulated over the years:

 

• Maxim Rysanov: J.S.Bach Suites Nos. 1, 4, 5 Hybrid SACD
  
• Carol Kidd: All My Tomorrows 96/24, vinyl
  
• Jazz at the Pawnshop Reguler CD
  
• The Famous Sound of three blind mice, Vol. 1 Regular CD
  
• Ondekoza: Fujiyama AQCD
  
• Mickey Hart: Planet Drum Au20 CD
  
• Ana Caram: The Other Side of Jobim Reguler CD
  
• Será una Noche: La Segunda 176/24
  
• Ry Cooder, V.M. Bhatt: A Meeting by the River Regular CD
  
• 郭雅志: 城市暢想 (Guo YaZhi: City Rhapsody) AQCD
  
• 羅晶: 將軍令 (Luo Jing: General's Command) Regular CD
  

That's off the top of my head. I'm sure I'll be able come up with more if I dig a little deeper. All of them are good music as well as good sonics, maybe except Planet Drum, depending on your taste. Some of them are available in multiple formats. The format listed are what I own.

 

Andy

[accwai]

There are many versions. My favourite ones are the Proprius SACD and the FIM K2HD CD:

 

It is available as UltraHD as well, which is FIM's newer mastering method:

 

 

By the way, you wrote this a while back:

 

Perhaps my favourite test CD is Master of Chinese Percussion K2HD. It is also very nice musically speaking.

 

Have been keeping an eye out for it since then. Came across an K2HD UDC (Ultimate Disc) copy in a somewhat out of the way plaza in town last weekend. The certificate says C1: 1.0, C2: 0 and CU: 0. Playing on my CD transport with clear top, I can see it's dead center without any eccentric wobble. As a result, the transport's read head is absolutely still. Wow... And it sounds great too, of course

[accwai]

Well if for you it's the sound of a piano, may i suggest these two.

 

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Hmm... Where are you getting these things? They are Chinese copies of TBM right? Is the one on the right the same as this:

 

 

If so, the piano sound on the track Misty at the end is indeed awesome. But given the scarcity of this CD, I'm now mostly playing a recent UltraHD copy from FIM:

 

 

The track list is not exactly the same as the old disc but close enough.