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Not surprising, is it, that so many of the "best sounding" albums listed here are classical music?
You guys who look and speak with disdain relative to classical music don't know what you are missing. Here's one of my favorites. 
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08-14-2014, 12:22 AM
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The good news about classical music is that there are multiple interpretations/recordings available for the same composition so there is much more flexibility with that genre to get an outlanding recording of a given piece.
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