ok, had to check, these are my 10 in no particular order: Beatles, Please Please Me Gold label in vg++ (Australia 1964) My Bloody Valentine Tremolo EP Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro US 1st stereo Ride Nowhere LP+ 2 eps Love Forever Changes early Us press Joy Division Closer 1st UK Pink Floyd Piper, 1st UK stereo VU & Nico, mono US second state (lawsuit sticker) Teenage Fanclub Bandwagonesque Wailing wailers 1971 Jamaica, not first press but early Bob Dylan, 1st US six-eye stereo Not bad when I look at it!

People scoffed at Bedini's CD Ultra Clarifier, saying it was snake oil, but I owned one, and it really did improve the sound a lot. Way more than any interconnect or speaker wires. Unfortunately, mine was damaged when I mixed up the power supply and fried it.

Look me up if you're into vinyl and familiar with the late Sleepy LaBeef. I have some LPs around here that were rarely played. He was my uncle. He knew Elvis Presley and gave me an unusual Elvis biography album just after Elvis died. It had a lifetime replacement guarantee for any reason, even scratched, broken, or just wore out.

My personal top, audiophile sound, spectacular music. It's useless to listen to music only for its quality. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon Michael Jackson - Thriller Eric Clapton - The Lady in the Balcony: Live Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

RCA Neon is a great label I got my copy of Spring s/t around 1992 for $150. Expensive at the time but dirt cheap now. Fantastic record. I also had a New Zealand pressing as well. Double gatefold,not triple.

Best finds are a white label promo of the 1st US Savage Resurrection and 1st US SRC. So wish Long Hair did From Books and Dreams! Best I have had a chance to get was a Brazilian press but still way too much!

Everyone stop what you're doing and go check out Peth - Merchant of death

Here are my best finds since the start of 2024: 11: 3 UK original white albums, kept one and sold other two, bought for 25 GBP each 10: Selected Ambient Works 85-92, UK 1st, EXC; 70 GBP 9: Dummy, Portishead, First UK, VG+; 22 GBP 8: Let it Be, Beatles, UK 1st Red Apple no box, NM; 19 GBP 7: Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division, UK 1st VG+; 25 GBP 6: Paranoid, Black Sabbath, 1970 Repress Vertigo, NM; 50 GBP 5: Are You Experienced Hendrix, UK Track, Mono, NM; 40 GBP 4: Led Zeppelin III, UK First Press Plum, NM; 30 GBP 3: Black Sabbath Vol 4, First UK Vertigo, EXC; 25 GBP 2: In The Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson, UK Pink i First, NM; two copies 20 GBP each 1: S/T, Jackson C Frank, NM/NM; 20 GBP

Nice list! The only one I have is Shape of the Rain which is massive. Really great, and yes I've listened to the podcast Psychedelic Relics, very good. The first Warhorse has a Keef cover but also Shape of the Rain is done by Keef!

Great pick-ups 🙏 I've had a good amount of stuff go in the collection this year.. highlights.. Still life UK 1st May Blitz UK 1st Dreamies auralgraphic entertainment US 1st Earth and fire 1st UK Beatles yesterday and today butcher 3rd state.. The list could go on 😁

Wow! Crazy good line up! Killer finds! I’m going to check out those kraut rock albums… thanks!

Great stuff. I have Uk Hard Stuff (2) - Bulletproof

Hello my best finds 1. Little miss lost - Cynz (powerpop) 2. Songs of Moondog - Kronos 3. Hazed dream - Psychic Ills 4. Inside - Ian Parker (guitar hero) 5. Frank Zappa live at Whisky Shall try Thundertree.....

My best find was a first pressing of "The Quest" from Mal Waldron, VG+ to Near Mint for 40,00 Euros 🙂 You asked for bragging, so I add Eric Dolphy "Outward Bound", first press, 15,00 bucks, another steal from last week, ....and some other great stuff. I am so with you, when you can add something really nice to your collection, this is Christmas plus birthday at once.

Great Metal Sound: Deep Purple In Rock [SHM-CD], Ozzy Osbourne Ozzmosis, Iron Maiden Wild Frontier

I always enjoyed Laurie Anderson's recordings, in particular her 'Life on a String' album. Let me know your thoughts.

Intresting… Vol 4, not amongst the 10.😮 One of my oldtime favorites. I have stopped collecting vinyl records. I think it have been to expensive. It would be nice if you could show your stereo equipment👍

Dschinn it's pronounced gin and it's the drink gin...

Amazing records!!! My best find came in late December and it is Amon Duul II Yeti, German 1 st press in NM condition.

What is your favorite cd version of Pink Floyd The Wall. I have a Harvey pressing that sounds great.

Be sure to hear the Santana III Legacy edition CD. Outstanding! And the live Fillmore show on the second disc will blow you away

Suggest you listen to any of the Japanese blu spec Cds of Bob Dylan. Great sound and blow vinyl editions and SACD releases away.

Alan Parsons project original release of tales of mystery and imagination on Blu-ray it is a phenomenally wonderful sonically mind-bending release Crank it up and enjoy😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊

Tracy Chapman - “Telling Stories” HDCD the music is outstanding, and the CD is very well mastered.

If you collect CD’s in 2024, look up “Pre-emphasis” and “De-emphasis.” If you’ve backed up a large portion of your CDs over the years, get ready to do them again. CD’s released prior to 2000 are defective unless properly de-emphasized. There’s plenty to read on this topic.

What sacd player do you use ?

Thanks friend

Deftones-Angeleyes

My favourite cd from 2023? "Folkocracy" Rufus Wainwright. I was not surprised but a little disappointed when it was not honoured as Grammy Winner in the folk category. Joni Mitchell's live singalong from the Newport Folk Festival won on a wave of emotion. Instead Rufus' cd was my favourite for A&R choices, and perhaps more important was the pure beauty of voice and tasteful instrumentation. I cannot stop listening!

An excellent selection. I have the majority of these discs. The best live recording I have is the SACD of Harry Belafonte At Carnegie Hall- IT SOUNDS AWESOME! I cannot believe this album was recorded in 1959- it sets a standard that few if any have ever matched.

Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons) Chamber Orchestra of Europe Viktoria Mullova

For Classical music with cello recommendation, please check "Venice" by Anastasia Kobekina. Beautiful recording. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pJl1haZhl7a5dqM.html

What you think about the cure band recording? A couple live are very very good,entreat live and Paris live 1992 …cheers from Spain

I don't know if it is metal or even more than that, but I find this album very satisfying both in artistic and engineering perspective: "Into the Electric Castle" by Ayreon. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lZpiZsRh1tzNdI0.html

Another reason why CDs (especially old ones) need to be collected.... because all music including 60s/70s/80s are being "remastered" which means being PITCH CORRECTED. Horrendous. Search for Wings of Pegagus, his channel has lots of analysis and examples.

Smashing pumkins - Gish, Soungarden - Superunknown but theese an Alice in Chain s is not metal but grunch from Seattle!☝️

Hello can You leave the audiophile aspect away, just the focus music quality, it’s even more interesting!😊

Yes! CDs are the future (and the past)!

Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick for a well recorded death metal CD

I respect the vinyl peoples but I just can't afford that life. I know me. I'd go broke buying records. I picked up a decent mid-range DAC and a used CD transport and have managed to put together a substantial collection from eBay and thrift shops. It really is a great way to collect physical music.

Hi. Check out The Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble's recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, it is my favourite. Also have a listen to the ECM album "Le pas du chat noir" by Anouar Brahem. Love your work!

I recently discovered the Treetop Flyers album The Mountain Moves, it is a fabulous album with a great sound.

Great video. One CD recommendation in the Hard Rock/Metal genre is the band Dream Theater my favorite album is Awake. But one of my utmost favorite songs is from their Metropolis Pt 2 CD: The Spirit Carries On….that song tears me up. You can feel James’ emotion on that track.

I will save you some reading and gift these Arvo Part, Portrait - Angele Dubeau & LA Pieta. Arvo Part, Te Deum. Satie, pianowoks - riri shimada. Easy move to classical for me from Prog rock and Ambient with these.

One of my favorite audiophile cds to listen to is Boz Scaggs - Dig.

Beck Sea change is total magic

People should ONLY listen to artists they enjoy. When people talk about "audiophiles' albums" it's a testament to the fact that this is a hw hobby. They listen to it only when they want to show the system to someone. Enthusiasts, like rare vehicles enthusiasts, who takes care of each detail to perfection, but not for the pleasure to RIDE it (they only ride it to show it off), but because the love that machine as a piece of art. That's a hobby, and that's ok. But NO, most of the do not cara about MUSIC AT ALL, the play it like 10 minutes/month, and play albums that sound technically great in their system, NOT the SONGS they love. And that's ok too. It's not ok only when they are fooled by the market, believing the new useless expensive upgraded improved the sound. No, it did not. Not even if you had teen ears, let alone 40+ ears. Don't take it as religion, it's a mere hardware hobby!

Puzzle by Dada is an incredible sounding rock album. (The remastered version with bonus tracks is even better)

Classic Music: Try Osmo Vänskä Gustav Mahler Symphony Cycle with the Minnesota Orchestra on SACD awesome sound quality and superbe interpretation👍👍 Just beginn with the 7th or 4th Sympony😊

Khmer by Nils Petter Molvær on ECM. Is it jazz? Maybe. Sounds good, whatever it is. For Orchestral music, Fritz Reiner conducts Lt Kije on RCA Living Stereo. Metal? Surfing With The Alien by Joe Satriani is worth owning for the song Always With Me, Always With You.