Instances where the * (MoFi) MFSL CD * -version is the best version of any digital format

Gerry Mulligan & Paul Desmond Quartet - Blues in Time
John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Marc Cohn - Marc Cohn
Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come
Modern Jazz Quartet - Blues at Carnegie Hall
Oscar Peterson Trio w/ Milt Jackson - Very Tall
U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Zoot Sims with the Kenny Drew Trio - Zoot Sims in Copenhagen

 

Lynyrd Skynrd.......Second Helping.
Chuck Berry is on Top/St. Louis to Liverpool
Little Richard twofer
Jefferson airplane - volunteers
Flying Burrito Brothers (3rd album)
The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark

 

While it's nice to see a positive thread like this it's all highly subjective. I disagree with several of what the OP listed.


Instances where the * (MoFi) MFSL CD * -version is the best version of any digital format
Does it have to be MFSL CD's only or may their SACD's also be listed?

 

Everything is subjective, just opinions.

Cars - S/T SACD
Cars - Candy O
Cars Heartbeat City SACD
Roy Orbison - All Time Greatest Hits
Procol Harum - A Salty Dog, Live, Broken Barricades, Home
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (mono) SACD
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks SACD
Blue Oyster Cult - S/T & Tyranny & Mutation
Ten Years After -Cricklewood Green/Shhhhh
Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
Supertramp - Crime of the Century

 

I was requesting CD choices, not SACD's, since 'conventional' wisdom says SACD's are better. I had noticed that these CD's are the best masterings, even though they're an "inferior" format.

 

It will only be better if the mastering was done right. That us why I included Hybrid SACD's in my small list. Plus the redbooks will feature the same mastering.
I did add "SACD" to those in the list so feel free to ignore them

 

I think their versions of The Allman Brothers Band (1st album) & Idlewild South are the best digital versions of those two albums, by a pretty wide margin in the case of Idlewild.

 

Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Sting - Dream Of The Blue Turtles

 

I meant choosing among the MFSL cd-only masterings, which I listed several of my favorites in the OP. The SACD's are of course nice, but I wanted to mine their back catalog for gems.

 

Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Def Leppard - Pyromania

 

List any (and all). I was actually responding to ricks question directly above your post. no worries.

 

Dissenting opinion:

When sound quality parameters are set ..it becomes much more objective.

 

I meant choosing among the MFSL cd-only masterings - I wanted to mine their back catalog for gems. Feel free to list your favorites from their entire catalog.

 

I'm looking for sound quality here, not artistic merit. If someone says a cd sounds great, then I'll decide after if I like the music. Any suggestions for best 'sound' are greatly appreciated in this narrow MFSL CD window. Thanks!

 

Erm, thats what Im sayin.

 

I was trying to be more specific in my response to you for the benefit of everyone else - Just rephrasing your point, is all. I'm quickly learning with these forums that if you don't get the exact meaning across in the headline (or in the first posting), then all hell breaks loose with interpretations of the original intentions. I'm getting better with posting exactly what I'm looking for, but clearly I need to fine tune things.

 

Abraxas - Santana

 

The Police - Synchronicity
Chicago Transit Authority
Sinatra - Everything they issued (excluding the original UD of SFSL)
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds (stereo), Surfer Girl/Surfin' USA
Miles Davis - Everything they issued
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Moody Blues - Everything they issued
Sonny Rollins - Way Out West

 

Well there is a bit of debate about Synchronicity. I personally think it's the best but others here differ.

 

The Cars - Candy-O
The Cars - Shake It Up

 

Pink Floyd - The Wall (yes I think it's better level matched with the 2011 and Columbia C2K).

 

I would agree with the U2 albums. They are amazing.
Jean Michel Jarre MFSL CDs are the best I have heard of Equinoxe and Oxygene.
Stevie Wonders Innervisions on MFSL is better than anything I have heard.
Pink Floyd The Wall/DSOTM are amazing on MFSL, but I only have the UK original CDs and the DSOTM SACD to compare them to and my Floyd vinyl has been gathering dust in the attic since 1988 with all my other vinyl.

 

The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
Counting Crows - August and Everything After

 

Wouldn't mind a Beatles mfsl cd, vinyl was a bit hit and miss.
CD titles I'd buy would be
Revolver /Pepper/the white a
. .all Mono with the exception of Abbey Road.