Best recording label for recording sound

[Mirror Image]

I should've mentioned Wergo in my initial post. I've always loved the sound of their recordings. CD Accord and Dux are two other labels that have extremely high standards in fidelity.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

My renewed list:


Columbia 1950-60s.
Decca mono
RCA Before 1965
Mercury
Command Classics

[Brian]

Boy, yeah, for older stuff I LOVE Mercury Living Presence. Also the 1970s combination of the LSO and EMI; all the Previn recordings sound turbocharged.

[Irons]

Amon Ra, especially recordings made at Finchcocks country house engineered by the label's owner Gef Lucena are the last word in natural sound.

 https://www.discogs.com/label/176404-Amon-Ra?srsltid=AfmBOooD1cFY9KvcrqI86v4EFzhXzoz76jlM__MO9ylpgt7wzSXDnzJA

[CRCulver]

Maybe we need a thread on worst recorded sound, and for me one candidate would be the Adès label which often recorded in IRCAM's espace de projection. I understand that this venue had acoustics that were desirable for certain research purposes, but when you put that sound on CD everything is so distant, glassy and lifeless.

[AnotherSpin]

If we're talking about the worst possible sound quality, it's hard to outdo the legendary achievements of the Melodiya (All-Union Gramophone Record Firm of the USSR Ministry of Culture Melodiya). Their recording equipment? Oh, just top-notch war trophies "borrowed" from Germany, which the ever-ingenious Soviet sound engineers tirelessly "enhanced" until it was reduced to utter garbage. Yet somehow still chugged along for decades. Throw in the stellar quality of the materials, flawless pressing — you know, the kind that makes every record a new adventure in crackles and hiss. And the sleeves? Absolute masterpieces of shoddy design.

[Rakelta]

BIS has clean, detailed sound, especially for classical music. Chandos offers warm, balanced recordings, and CPO can be hit or miss but great when done right. Naxos is solid, especially for lesser-known composers, though not always as polished as the top labels.