“The List
Updated July 31, 2010 by The Polarity Project™
When a CD is made in normal (absolute) polarity (N), a non-inverting playback system will play the CD such that its compressions and rarefactions are in sync with the live performance. When a CD is made inverted, the compressions and rarefactions of a non-inverting playback system will be exactly out of sync with the live performance.
In my experience the major labels are more likely to have CDs of both polarities but they tend to be predominantly one polarity and the list includes some of the CDs that are not in a label’s usual polarity. When the relative polarity of all the tracks on a label’s CD sampler is the same, it’s usually indicative of the label’s polarity for all its discs, because the sampler is probably representative of many of the label’s offerings. It may appear that the polarity of some labels CDs is random, e.g. Verve is an example of an umbrella label that has sub-labels that may have different relative polarities but each sub-label’s CDs are usually the same relative polarity. Therefore, each sub-label is listed as if it’s a totally separate label. If the CD isn’t silver (aluminum), e.g. gold it will be noted.
I’ve heard other labels with reissued CDs that have the left and right channels reversed relative to the vinyl record. Some stereo microphone and multi-microphone feed CD reissues have one or more feeds remixed into different channels. I’ve never heard a reissued CD even on a different label than the original CD that has its polarity different from the original CD.
The polarity designations are as stated only if the majority of CD manufactures are making CDs in correct polarity (N), but if the opposite is true, then the polarity designations should be reversed (R) but the relative polarities of the listings won’t change.
The Phil Spector “Wall of Sound” (W/S) recordings are a special case because at both live and recorded performances Phil Spector wanted the lead vocalists and instrumentalists in absolute polarity (N) to spotlighted in bas relief against a 2-dimensional wall of sound he created by having everything else heard in inverted polarity (R).
I’ve discerned the polarity of thousands of CDs but don’t think it’s useful to list them all. I can only determine the polarity of CDs by listening. I want to list specific CDs and CD labels that are of special interest to music-loving audiophiles. Because as the Perfect Polarity Pundit in reality I’m not always perfect, the list is subject to revision, so please feel free to suggest corrections and additions. The polarity tests are performed with an NEC CD-730 CD player that has a remote control digital domain polarity switch. I don’t know any way of objectively determining the polarity of CD players but working on that problem. Thus only the relative polarity of the listed labels and CDs can be relied upon. However, I previously used an Adcom GCD-575 CD player with a digital domain polarity switch that I thought was inverted relative to the NEC CD-730 and other CD players, but in fact it isn’t. I found such a high proportion of CDs to be inverted, which, at the time didn’t seem very likely, so that I thought that it was inverting relative to other players. Contributing to the mixup is that the red polarity light is on when the player was supposed to be non-inverting and off when the player is supposed to be inverting, which is the opposite of any other CD player I’ve used. So although I heard the polarity of the CDs correctly on the Adcom GCD-575, because I thought was inverting relative to most other CD player, I’m now using the NEC CD-730 to reassess the polarity designations that I made with the Adcom GCD-575. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused anyone relying upon “The List.”
I listen to CDs on a player with a volume control and remote control digital domain polarity switch connected directly to a non-inverting power amplifier over a minimum phase speaker system of my own design. I discern polarity by deciding which polarity sounds more like live music. For SACDs, DVDs, internet downloads, and vinyl records I add a preamplifier with a remote control polarity switch. And for vinyl records I use a linear tracking turntable with a strain gauge cartridge. It also seems to me that some internet hi-res downloads are inverted.
Updates to “The List” will be published both separately as “The List Update (with its date) and fully integrated into “The List.”
For information on the sonic effects of polarity you may read A Speculation on Perception of Detail by clicking on the link: Polarity Think piece: A Speculation Regarding Perception of Detail at http://www.ultrabitplatinum.com/?page_id=88. Given the relatively high proportion of audiophile CD labels that are polarity inverted including those labels with non inverted vinyl record counterparts, one might speculate that a major reason for the preference that many music-loving audiophiles for the presentation and musicality of vinyl records is that they’re comparing them to inverted CDs.
Anyone who’s interested in a free listening session sharing some of their favorite music/my favorite music/using my CD player’s remote control polarity switch to hear polarity differences for themselves, please email: gslouis@gslouis.com or call 888-588-9542 toll free 7-days a week from 9AM to 11:45PM Pacific time and I’ll do my best to accommodate you. And you may email corrections or additions for “The List” to gslouis@gslouis.com.
A “The” at the beginning of a label name will be omitted for the purpose of alphabetizing but shown in parenthesis after the label name, e.g. (The).
“The List”
N = Normal Polarity, R = Reversed Polarity. BP = Both Polarity CDs, W/S = Wall of Sound, S/W = Reversed polarity Wall of Sound, MT = Tracks with different relative polarity, i.e. some N and some R tracks, MP = Mixed polarity on one or more tracks.
1,304 Entries, 974 N and 330 R, R/(N + R) = 330/1,304= 25.31 %*, *R actually includes everything that’s not N, i.e. BP, W/S, S/W, MT, and MP. Because the statistics apply only to the list and the number of titles issued by various labels may vary, the polarity statistics for titles may be different from “The List.”
- 143 Records – LAVA Alantic hyper CD recordings N
- 25 Years BMG – Will Ackerman, Hearing Voices (Guitar) N
- 32 Jazz N
- 429 Records N
- 4AD N
- 4AD – Dead Can Dance- Into the Laabyrinth N
- 70 1905-1975 –Bongiovanni Digital N
- 9 winds N
- 91 Ninety-One N
- AB Sound – Eiji Kitamura – Swingin” Age Part 1 N
- A & M – Records N
- A & M Records – Don Cherry – Art Deco R
- A & M Records – Delos N
- A & M Records – Americana N
- A Bongo Music N
- A World of Music N
- A440 N
- AB Sound – Alpha Enterprise Co. Ltd. N
- Acantia N
- Accent N
- Accord – Plus Time N
- Accurate N
- Ace N
- ACM N
- Acoustic Disc N
- Acoustic Music N
- Acoustic Music Records – Steven King – Acoustic Swing R
- Acoustic Music Records USA N
- Acoustic Music Resource Solid Air Records N
- ACTO Atlantic Recording Corporation R
- ACTO Records – Atlantic & Atco Remasters N
- ACUM N
- After 9 Records N
- Ag – Columbia N
- Agora – Musica -.Akademia N
- Ahimsa Acoustics – Tom Prasada – Rao – The Way of The World R
- AI LACOX N
- Air Gospel N
- AirCraft Records – Round Sounds Vol. II R
- Albion N
- Album Network (The) N
- Alfa Jazz – evidence N
- Alithea Records N
- AliaVox N
- All Art Jazz N
- All Star Percussion Ensemble (The), matrix # MOS MCD-10007 5 made in Japan R
- Allegiance – Takoma N
- Allegretto – Allegrettto II N
- Allegretto II N
- Allegro N
- Allegro-Music.com – Columbia River Entertainment Group) N
- Alligato Records N
- Aloi Records – Carol Kidd – “All My Tomorrows” R
- Alshire Stereo N
- Amazing Records N
- Ambrus Discs & Tapes N
- American Gramaphone – Sampler III N
- American Music Hall – The Carmen McRae- Betty Carter Duets R
- American Recordings –Johnny Cash N
- Analogue Productions – The Fi/Analogue Productions Sampler R
- Analogue Productions 24 Karat Gold Limited Edition – 20 + 16 Ultra Matrix Processing – Janis Ian – Breaking Silence R
- Analogue Productions Gold Limited Edition -Genuine 24Kt. Gold Coating Superior Gold – The Weavers -Reunion At Carnegie Hall 1963 R
- Angel N
- Angel Classic Musicals N
- ANTI, Inc. – Ramblin Jac Elliott – A Strange Hear R
- Antilles – Island (see Island – Antilles) N
- Antilles – Patricia Barber, A Distortion of Love N
- Antone’s Records N
- Antone’s Records and Tapes N
- Appleseed – David Bromberg – Try Me One More Time R
- AR Jazz Arabesque Recordings N
- Arabesque N
- Arbors Records – Arbors Jazz N
- Archive Production N
- Archives – Warner Bros. N
- A-Records BIEM/STEMRA Digital Mastering Hoagy Carmichael, Stardust Melody N
- Argo N
- Ariola – Eurodisc N
- Arion N
- Arista N
- Arista = RCA – BMG N
- ARK R
- Arkadia Jazz – In the Beginning – Opening Salvo N
- Arrow Records N
- ARS Harmonica – S.G.A.E. - Duo Rafols – Rodgiguez R
- Art & crafts International N
- Art & Electronics – A Soviet American Joint Venture – MCA Classics R
- ARTizen Music Group R
- Arts – Audiophile series 24-bit 96 kHz technology – MCPS N
- AS disc N
- Astree Auvidis N
- Astree Naïve N
- Astron N
- ASV – Academy Sound and Vision Ltd. N
- Asylum N
- Asylum – Eagles – Hotel California R
- Atlantic – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, 4 way Street N
- Atlantic (HDCD) N
- Atlantic Jazz - Cyrus Chestnut – Earth Stories N
- Atlantic Records Fortieth Anniversary N
- ATMA clasique N
- ATO Records – Rubyworks – rodrigo y gabriela R
- Atr. N
- Au20 Ryko The World 360 – Mickey Hart – Planet Drum (See Ryko The World 360 below) (Gold CD) R
- AUDIO – A CD Sound Sampler by AUDIO GEMA N
- Audio N
- Audiophile Records N
- Audiophoric m-phoric recording system - Pamela York with John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton – Blue York R
- Audiophoric m-phoric recording system – Harold Land Quartet – promised land R
- Audioquest R
- Audioquest Music R
- Audiostax – Dummy –Head – Recordings N
- Aurophon N
- Aurora Jazz – Love is the Answer – Chris Keller R
- Auvidis Astree N
- Avenue Jazz – Rhino N
- Aware Records – Columbia N
- B & O Bang & Olufsen – Active Listening III R
- b N 021 N
- B.I.E.M. – STEMRA –JMT Productions N
- Bad Boy Records – Bad Boy Wonderland – Janelle Monae – The Archandroid R
- Bainbridge Records – Colossus Digital Stereo N
- Bandit Records – Welk Music Group N
- Barclay PolyGram distribution SILVER SERIE – BREL R
- Barsuk Records N
- Basin Street Records N
- Bat Records N
- BBC Radio Classics N
- BBR – Big Bang Records N
- BCC Music Magazine - Swiss Radio Chorus of Lugano, I Barocchist/Diego Fasolis – Handel Dixit Dominus Vivaldi Gloria N
- Bear Family Records N
- Beast Retro N
- Bedroom Classics N
- Bella Nova Music Carlos Olmeda – Sensitive Groove R
- Berlin Classics – edel company N
- B G O Records – Discs 1 & 2 – Leo Kottke – The Best N
- BIEN – Storyville Records N
- Bien/ncb FXCD N
- BIEM/STEMRA (In the EU only) – TimeClassic Composers N
- Big Chicago Records, Inc. – A Chicago Jazz Tour N
- Big Mo Records N
- Big World Music Inc. N
- Biograph – Shout Factory N
- BIS BP
- BIS digital – An original digital reording – Wilhelm Stenhammar – Cristina Ortiz, piano , Gothenburg smphony Orchestra – Neeme Jarvi R
- BIS – HansFagius – The Organ of Harnosand Cathedral, Swden – discs 1 & 2 R
- Bis – The Russian Violin R
- Bis – A Bis original dynamics recording – Vladimir Mikula, guitar – Works by Koshkin and Rak – The Prince’s Toys R
- Bis Records AB (tested hybrid SACD – CD layer only) N
- Black Beauty Records N
- Black Lion N
- Black River Records N
- Black Top CD BT N
- Blackground Records – Universal Records N
- Black-Hawk Records N
- Blix Records R
- Blix Street Records – Eva Cassidy, Songbird R
- Blluebird – RCA N
- Bloodshot N
- Blue Groove – Hans Theessink – Johnny & the Devil R
- Blue Groove – Thomastik Infeld N
- Blue Live, The Authorized Bootleg N
- Bluemoon/MR -USQ the Uptown String Quartet – Just Wait A Minute! R
- Blue Note – Kevin Eubanks – Turning Point R
- Blue Note – Capitol Records, Inc. N
- Blue Note – Junko OnishI – Live at The Village Vanguard R
- Blue Note – Patricia Barber – [all titles] R
- Blue Note – Ron Carter – The Bass and I R
- Blue Note - Premonition Records – Patricia Barber [all titles] R
- Blue Note – Stefon Harris – BlackActionFigure R
- Blue Note – somethin’else N
- Blue Note – Music from EMI – Patricia Barber – Mythologies R
- Blue Sky Records N
- Bluemoon N
- Bluemoon/Moo™ N
- Bluemoon/MR N
- BluePort N
- Blues Express Inc. N
- Blujazz N
- BMG Music N
- BNA Entertainment – BMG N
- Bold Hill – Vision Records N
- Bonge Records – James Bongiorno – The Bonge N
- Bose – Heat The Difference Volumes 1 and 2 N
- Border Community N
- Bowers & Wilkins – Jaguar – Audiophile Recordings For The Road – Automotive Compilation 2008 (all tracks R except #2 N) BP
- Bowers & Wilkins Gema –BRC N
- BRC-Jam – Todd Coolman Trio – Tomorrows R
- Bridge N
- Bringing It All Back Home R
- Broadway Angel N
- Brownstone Recordings N
- Brue & Kjaer Pro Audio N
- Bruel & Kjaer B & K N
- Bug – Capitol Records N
- Burmester – Art for the Ear N
- Cabaret DRG – Andrea Marcovicci – What is Love R
- Café Records N
- Cairney Hill Music N
- Caju Music – Milestone World Music N
- California Breeze N
- CALIG (Digital) N
- Caltex Records N
- Calvin Records N
- Cam Jazz – -Live in Japan N
- Candid – AO! Records N
- Candid – Koch International N
- Canyon N
- CAPI Records, Ltd. – WU – Drifting Timelessly R
- Capitol – Bonnie Raitt, Road Tested N
- Capitol Compact Disc N
- Capitol Compact Disc (Records) –EMI N
- Capitol Records – bel BIEM N
- Capitol Records (Capitol Compact Disc)– mpL N
- Capitol Records, Inc. – Jasrac –Tosiba-EMI LTD. N
- Capitol Records, Inc. N
- Capitol Records – The Best of Pink Floyd – Echoes W/S
- Capprccio Digital N
- Capri Records – Super Bass R
- Capri Records, LTD. N
- Capri Wu Records LTD. N
- Capricorn Records – N
- Carosello Records & Tapes N
- Carrot Top Records N
- Carver & GRP – Carver Corporation & GRP Records Presents AMAZING BYTES Reference CD N
- Caryout – Borough Media -Redeye Distribution N
- Cascavelle N
- Cascavelle – SUISA N
- Castle Tutse mcps N
- Category 5 Records = Red N
- CBS – CK 08163 – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue R
- CBS - John Williams – Spirit of the Guitar music of the americas R
- CBS – Pink Floyd, The Wall W/S
- CBS MKN N
- CBS Records – Andre Kostelanetz – Opera Without Words N
- CBS Records – Claude Bolling – Original Ragtime N
- CBS Records Masterworks N
- CBS Records Masterworks – Gershwins Greatest Hits N
- CBS Records Masterworks – Wendy Carlos – Switched-on Bach N
- CBS – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue R
- CBS Special Products – Miles Davis – Miles Davis Plays Classic Ballads R
- CBS/SONY N
- CBUJ Recordings N
- CDJAY N
- Cedille Records N
- CELP – CLARINET SESSIONS R
- Cema Special Markests – Sound Exchange N
- CEMA Special Markets – Peggy Lee, Fever & other hits N
- Centaur N
- CETRA Classic Collection N
- Cexton Records N
- CGD Music N
- Challenge Records N
- Chameleon / Beachwood Records – Laurence Juber – Solo Flight R
- Chandos (Digital) N
- Channel Classics Records BV STEMRA N
- Chanticleer Records N
- Charisma –Pointblank N
- Chesky R
- Chesky – Jen Chapin – Revision – Songs of Stevie Wonder – Hybrid SACD 347 (CD layer only tested) tracks 1 -6 & 12 Vocalist N instruments R, tracks 7-11 S/W
- Chesky - Dr. Chesky’s Magnficent, Fabulous, Absurd & Insane 5.1 Surround Show (CD layer only tested) SACD273 R
- Chesky Records – 20th anniversary Chesky Records – The Interviews R
- Chesky Reords – Best of Chesky Jazz And More Audiophile Tests/Vol.2 R
- Chesky Records – Bucky Pizzarelli – Swing Live SACD 223 (CD layer only tested) N
- Chesky Records – Guide to Criticl Listening – The Ultimate Demonstration Disc S/W
- Chesky Records – Jazz Sampler and Audiophile Test Compact Disc Volume 1 R
- Chesky Records – The Fred Hersch Group – Forward Motion R
- Chesky Records – Kenny Rankin – Because of You JD67 R
- Chesky Records, Inc. High Resolution Technology – Recorded at 96/24 – Livingston Taylor – ink R
- Chesky Records – Rebecca Pidgeon – Retrospective (hybrid SACD DSD, CD layer tested only) R
- Chesky Records – High Resolution Technology Recorded at 96/24 – Valerie Joyce – New York Blue R
- Chesky Records – (hybrid Super Audio CD CD layer only tested) – The Ultimate Demonstration Disc Volume 2 R
- Chess – MCA – Utradisc II Original Master Recording MFSL N
- Chess N
- Chris Smither/Homunclus Music – Chris Smither – Another Way to Find you N
- Chrysalis N
- Chrysalis Records, Inc. N
- Clarinet Classics N
- Clarity Cable – LV 2010 R
- Clarity Recordings – First Generation Direct Master CD – Mary Stallings – Fine and Mellow N
- Clarity Recordings – The Clarity Collection Volume Two- Naturally Balanced Two Microphone Audiophile Recordings N
- Classic Blues N
- Classio N
- Claves – SUSIA N
- Cleo N
- CMR Cross Movement Records –Provident- Integerity – Sony BMG N
- Col Legno Contemporary N
- Collectables – Grassella Oliphant quartette – The Grass Roots N
- Collectables – James P. Johnson – Carolina Shout R
- Collectors’ Choice Music N
- Collegium N
- Collegium Records N
- Colossus – Digital Stereo – Bainbridge Records N
- Colossus – Digital Stereo N
- Columbia – MTV Unplugged – Alice In Chains N
- Columbia “360 Sound” – Bob Dylan – Highway 61 Revisited R
- Columbia – bela fleck & The flecktones – Live at the Quick R
- Columbia – Bob Dylan, Blond on Blond R
- Columbia – Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home R
- Columbia – Bob Dylan, Bringing it All Back Home HDCD CD layer only tested R
- Columbia – Chet Atkins Mark Knopfler – Neck And Neck R
- Columbia – Bob Dylan, Desire N
- Columbia – Bob Dylan, Oh Mercy N
- Columbia – James Taylor, Live W/S
- Columbia “360 Sound” – Legacy - Columbia Jazz – CK 64395 – 6 track reissue – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue R
- Columbia – Gold CD Reissue – Miles Davis – Kind of Blue R
- Columbia – MTV™ Unplugged EP – Mariah Carey N
- Columbia – Roger Waters, Amused to Death (gold) N
- Columbia Jazz Masterpieces Columbia N
- Columbia Legacy – Lagacy Rhythm and Soul Series N
- Columbia Legacy “360 Sound” CK 64395 (reissue with 6 tracks) - Miles Davis – Kind of Blue R
- Columbia/DMZ/Legacy N
- Compadre Records – Stephane Grappelli, Violin, Yo-Yo Ma, Cello – “Anything Goes” R
- Compass / Productions N
- Compass Records N
- Concert Gold – Intersound (Gold) N
- Concord – The Charlie byrd Trio – Au Courant R
- Concord – King Records, Tokyo Japan – Jasrac R
- Concord (Records) – jazz moods, Jazz at Love’s End N
- Concord Jazz – eden Atwood – A Night in the Life R
- Concord Jazz – Jazz Celebration – A Tribute To Carl Jefferson – Disc One N
- Concord Jazz – (L.A. Four series of CDs) N
- Concord Jazz – L.A. 4 -Watch what Happens R
- Concord Jazz BP
- Concord Jazz – The Concord Jazz Guitar Collection Vols. 1 and 2 (one disc) & Volume Three R
- Concord Jazz – The L.A. Four, Going Home N
- Concord Jazz – Al Cohn – Standards of Excellence R
- Concord Jazz collectors’s series – Charlie Byrd – Barney Kessel – Herb Ellis -Great Guitars N
- Concord Jazz, Inc. – Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham – and The sweet Baby Blues Band – Midmight Mama N
- Concord Jazz – Monty alexander, John Clayton, Jeff Hamilton – Reunion in Europe R
- Concord Picante – Laurindo Almedia – Outra Vez R
- Connoisseur Collection Ltd. N
- Contemporary – Carol Sloane – The Real Thing N
- Criss Cross Jazz N
- Crown – SAR D649010- The Crown SASS™ Microphone N
- Crystal Records Digital – Thomas Stevens, Trumpet, Terry Trotter, Piano – Philharmonic Standard Time R
- CTI – A Division of Creed Taylor, Inc. N
- CTI – Epic – Legacy N
- CTI – Produced by Creed Taylor – Rhythmstick R
- CURB Records – RCA N
- Custard 60 Music N
- Dancing Cat Records N
- Daptone Records N
- Dare2 Records N
- Dargason Music N
- Das Boot Recording N
- DBK JAZZ N
- DCC Compact Classics R
- DCC Compact Classics – Mercury – 24 Karat Gold Compact Disc – 10cc The Original Soundtrack R
- DCC Jazz – The Phil Woods Quintet Song for Sisyphus N
- DCC Jazz – The Exotic Sound of The Arthur Lyman Group, Featuring Taboo & Yellow Bird R
- DCC Jazz Counterpoint R
- Decaydance N
- Decca A Universal Music Company – Gladiator N
- Decca – Maria Cecilia Bartoli R
- Decca Jazz – GRP Presents The Legendary Masters of Jazz N
- Decca Record Company/Limited, London R
- Decca Records Legends -Legendary Performances (mono) Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier R
- Def Soul – The Dej Jam Music Group – A Universal Music Company N
- Dejadisc N
- Delmark N
- Delta Music Gemb – The Instruments of Classical Music Cello R
- Delos – Digital Master Series N
- Delos N
- Delos – 1000 Series – The Art of The Theremin N
- Delos – A & M records Presents Digital Master Series – The symphonic Sound Stage Volume 2 – a Listner’s Guide to the Art and Science of Recording the Orchestra R
- Denon N
- Denon – Audiophile Series – PCM/Digital Recording – HI-FI Check CD N
- Denon PCM Digital – Helen donath, soprano, Diego Pagin, violin, Eliahu Inbal, conducting – Gustav Mahler Symphony No.4 R
- Denon – PCM Digital Recording – Nipppon Columbia Columbia Co LTD – HI FI News & Record Review Test Disc HFN 003 R
- Denon PCM Digital – Eliahu Inbal – Hector Berlioz – Harold en Italie OP. 16 N
- Denon Records/Nippon Columbia Co. Ltd. Monaural N
- Deutche Grammophon – Anne Sofie Vonotter Meets Elvis Costello N
- Deutsche Grammophon (CD layer of hybrid SACD) N
- Deutsche Grammophon DG R
- Deutsche Grammophon DG – The Complete Nocturnes, Daniel Barenbolm R
- Deutsche harmonia mundi N
- dg A Universal Music Company Miramax enhanced CD N
- dg A Universal Musical Company N
- DGC –David Geffen Company R
- DGQ-20 N
- Diesel Only Records N
- Digital Dexterity Records (ASCAP) – Carlos Olmeda – Learning to Walk R
- Digital Mastering N
- Direct Source Special Productions Inc. N
- Discos de Centroamerica, s. a. N
- Discover International N
- Discovery – Clare Fischer R
- Discovery – tommy Tedesco – Fine Fretted Friend R
- Disques Pierre Verany N
- dmp R
- dmp – Digital Music Products, Inc. – Sample This R
- dmp – Telarc Digital – Priority Sample N
- Donkey N
- Dorian Recordings R
- Double Time Records N
- Dove Audio N
- Dreyfus Jazz N
- DBK/JAZZ – Sampler N
- DRG N
- DRK-CD N
- DS – Direct Source Special Productions Inc. N
- Dualtone N
- Ducale – S.I.A.E. N
- Dynamic Srl N
- Earth Work N
- East Wind – Jasrac – The L.A. Four, Going Home N
- East Wind – Philips – Gold CD Special Limited Edition N
- Eastwind –IMC Intercom Music Corp. N
- Easy Star Records N
- EASYDISC N
- Ecdenklang –The Eclectic-Music Company N
- ECM N
- Edel Company –Berlin Classics N
- Editio Classic – deutsche harmonia mundi N
- Electra N
- Electra – Doors – In Concert R
- Elektra – Musician N
- Elektra Nonesuch N
- Eleven Seven Music N
- Eleven Thirty Records – Viewfinder Records
- Eloquence – Universal – Philips Classics N
- EmArcy N
- EmArcy Records N
- EMI -Stkososki Plays Bach- Toccata & Fugue in D minor – Leopold Stokowski N
- EMI Angel Digital N
- EMI Classics N
- EMI Classics – Kiri Te Kanawa – Richard Strauss DEr RosenKavalier N
- EMI Classics For Pleasure N
- EMI Records Group N
- Encore N
- enja – Enja Records – Bobby Watson – Advance R
- ENJA Gema Stereo N
- Enjoy Records – Jack Johnson – Brushfire Fairytales R
- Ensayo – N
- Epic N
- Epic Red Ink N
- Epic Associated – Paul Desmond – The Best Of – Digitally Remastered Directly From the Original Analog Tapes N
- Epic/Legacy N
- EPM Musique N
- Erato – Electra N
- Erato N
- ERC N
- Ermitage – RTSI – SIAE N
- Essex Music – Pink Floyd Music, Ltd. – EMI Records, Ltd. – Echoes The Best of Pink Floyd – discs 1 & 2 N
- Estudio Eldorado N
- Eurodisc N
- Evening Star Records N
- Ever Loving N
- Everest – The Sound of Everest – 35 MM Ultra Analog Vanguard Classics 20 bit Digital SMB™ Super Bit Mapping R
- Evidence N
- Excelsior – Jazz Gold N
- Exceslsior Classic Gold N
- Fabric Records N
- Fanfare Digital – Ofra Harnoy & the Orford String Quartet Play the Beatles N
- Fanfare- The Fanfare CD Sampler N
- Fantasy, Inc. – Milestone N
- Fat Possum Records – Epitaph N
- Favored Nations Acoustic N
- Fervent Records – Curb – WB [Warner Brothers] N
- Fidelio – Licensed from Hungaroton N
- Fim K2 – This is K2 HD Sound! Various Artists MT
- Fim K2 HD Mastering – Dances of Old Vienna
- Fim K2 HD Mastering – Yim Hok-Man – Master of Chinese Percussion R
- Fim xrcd 20 bit super coding K2 Laser Cutting Jasrac – Audiophile Reference III – The Super Extended Resolution Sound of TBM N
- FIM First Impression Music, Inc. Jazz At The Pawnshop Volume One R
- Fingerstyle Guitar N
- Firebird – King Records, Tokyo Japan N
- Firm Music N
- First Choice N
- Flavor Unit Records – Vector – AEG Live –Creative Battery – A&M Records – Universal N
- Flying Fish N
- For the Stars R
- Forefront Records NN
- Frenchkiss Records N
- Fujitsu – Concord George Shearing - “Dexterity” -jazz festival in Japan ’87 R
- Gai Saber N
- GALA N
- Galazy- 20 bit K2 super coding – Art Pepper – Winter Moon R
- Gammon N
- Garland N
- Gazell N
- GCD N
- Gecko Records N
- Geffen N
- Geffen -Beetlejuice – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack R
- Geffen Records – b.b. king – the ultimate collection N
- Geffen Records Inc. – ERC- The Eagles Recording Company – The Eagles, Hells Freezes Over R
- GEMA N
- GEMA Special Markets N
- Gemini Records – The Jazz Sampler (same as Taurus Records Gemini) N
- GGS Gaither Music group N
- GHA Records N
- Giant N
- Gift Horse N
- Gimell N
- Ginfline –Fineline Classical N
- GLCD – June Tabor a Quite Eye N
- Global Pacific N
- GML Gold Mastafon Labo – [EX-SPIRAL] N
- GNP N
- GNP Crescendo Records N
- Gold Fidelity N
- Golden String & Co. – Firma FLUDNSPELNING Opus 3, proprius, PROPHONE, and Opus 3 R
- Golden String Audiophile Repertory (Gold CD) – Harold Farberman Conducts – The All Star Percussion Ensemble III – “Another Sonic And Musical Blockbuster” R
- Good Music Record Co. (The) N
- Gospel (HDCD) N
- Gospo Centric – Fo Yo Soul Productions N
- Gramavision N
- Green Line Records, Inc N
- Green Linnet, Inc. R
- Greenhays Recordings N
- Groove Note – Audiophile CD Stereo N
- GRP Records – Diana Krall – Only Trust Your Heart R
- GSP N
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- Klavier – The Original Piano trio Plays Nostalgia 20′s Style – recorded by Keith Johnson & Harold Powell R
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- LaserLight – R
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- LaserLight – Digital Recording -The Instruments of Classical Music Vol. 7 – The Piano R
- Last Gang – Vice N
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- M *A Music N
- Mad Romance Records N
- Mad-Kat Records – Madeline eastman – Point of Departure R
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- MAPLESHADE PRODUCTIONS – Wildchild! -Live at The Bad Habits Cafe – Bad Influence R
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- New Digital Recording – Filmco – Silva Screen Records Ltd N
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- Nonesuch – George Gershwin – The Piano Rolls Volume Two R
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- Opus 3 – Test Record 1 – Depth of image R
- Or Music – Jdub Records – Matisyahu – Epic
- Orange Blue (Productions) N
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- Other Minds Records N
- Otavo – Groningen Guitar Duo: Riversong N
- Overbrook Music/Intersocpe Records N
- Owl N
- Pablo R
- Pablo Original Jazz Classics - The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 AT THE MONTREUX JAZZ FESTIVAL 1975 R
- Pablo Original Jazz Classics N
- P.A.C. Records – Naturally Seven – “Non Fiction” N
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- Pair Records N
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- Passage Records – Phil Markowitz – In the Woods R
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- Personal Choice Records N
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- Philips Polygram – Max Roach Presents – the uptown String Quartet R
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- PILZ – Golden Jazz R
- Pipeline Music N
- Planet Bluegrass N
- Platero – El Rio de la Plata – Volume III R
- Playboy Jazz -Concord Records, Inc. – Discs 1 & 2 – A Great Night in Harlem – To benefit the Jazz Musicians’ Emergency Fund R
- Plladium (Records) Latin Jazz & Dance Records N
- Plus Records Group (+) N
- Point Classics – mcps N
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- Point Music N
- Polar – Polydor -ABBA Gold Greatest Hits N
- Polydor N
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- Portrait N
- Posi – Force Records N
- Postcard, Inc. N
- Pound Studios – A Date with Simon Stribling & Friends N
- Premium Music Collection N
- Premonition Records N
- Premonition Records – Patricia Barber – Split N
- Prestige N
- Prestige Jazz – Jay Leonhart, A Jazz Journey R
- Private Music – Leo Kottke – Regards from Chuck Pink R
- Proarte Digital – Fanfare N
- Proarte Digital N
- Productions Sunset House N
- Profil – Edition Gunter Hanssler N
- Projazz N
- Projekt N
- Prompt N
- Proprius – AudioSource R
- Proprius PRCD 7762 – Cantate Domino R
- Proprius – PRCD 2004/5 2 discs – Jacob’s tracks -33 tracks – The Ultimate Audiophile Collection R
- Proprius R
- Proprius – PRCD 7778 – Jazz At The Pawnshop R
- Proprius – PRCD 9044 – Jazz At The Pawnshop 2 R
- Proprius Prophone PCD 020 – Jazz Sampler 1994 R
- Provident N
- PS Classics N
- PSM – Polygram – Pasta Classics N
- Pure N
- Putumayo World Music N
- Qualiton “Imports of distinction” – Eric Tanguy , Marius Constant – Chamade N
- Quality Warlock N
- Quintessence N
- Ranwood N
- RAS Records N
- Rave On (Rave-On) RaveOn Productions N
- RCA – Songs From Ragtime the Musical N
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- RCA Living Stereo – Copland – Billy The Kid Rodeo & Grofe – Grand Canyon Suite R
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- RCAVictor – Soweto String Quartet – Zebra Crossing R
- RCM – Rubedo Canis Musica N
- Real Talk – Koch Entertainment N
- RealTime Records N
- Realworld N
- Realworld – Narada N
- Rearward/Schema s.a.i.e. – Johnny Griffin – Griffin’ Bags R
- Rebel Ink Records N
- Rebel Records N
- Red N
- Red Bridge Records Blue Thumb N
- Red Hen Records N
- Red House Records – Elliott, Koerner, Phillips – Legends of Folk Live from the World Theater R
- Red House Records, Inc. RHR – Martin Simpson, Righteousness & Humility R
- Red Ink N
- Red Pajamas Records, Inc. N
- Red Rose Music Hybrid SACD (the CD layer only tested) R
- Red Seal Digital – RCA N
- Redhot Records N
- Redwood Records N
- Reference Gold by Inersound N
- Reference Recordings – A Prof. Johnson Recording Dafos R
- Reference Recordings R
- Reference Recordings XLO Test & Burn-In HDCD RX-1000 R
- Relativity/MMC N
- Rendezvous N
- Rendezvous N Repertoire (see Universal… below) R
- Repretoire (see Starbucks Coffee above) R
- Reprise – the B52′s -Comic Thing R
- Reprise Records – Joni Mitchell – Blue W/S
- Reprise Records a Time Warner Company – Joni Mitchell – Turbulent Indigo N
- Reprise Warner Brothers N
- ReR N
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- Restless Records N
- Resurgent Music – David Sills – hangin’ five R
- Rhino – Acoustic Edge R
- Rhino – Blue Man Group, How to Be a Megastar Live R
- Rhino – Contemporary Folk, The Best of Folk Music N
- Rhin0 – Leo Kottke -The Leo Kottke Anthology – Discs 1 & 2 N
- Rhino – Smash Arts N
- Rhino – Billboard Top Rock ‘N’ Roll Hits N
- Rhino – Jim Croce – Classic Hits R
- Rhino – WB (Warner Brothers) N
- Red House Records – RHR CD – Legends of Folk R
- Ricercar – WDR SABAM N
- Righteous Babe Records N
- Rising Sleeves N
- River North Records – A Cappella Gershwin as Performed by GLAD R
- Riverside – Original Jazz Classics – Prestige Records N
- Riverside N
- Riverside [Riverside Records] – Original Jazz Classics N
- Roadrunner Records N
- ROC-A-Fella Records N
- Rock Bridge Music N
- Rodolphe Productions N
- Roland –V-Guitar system VG-8 – Demo CD N
- Ronnie Scott’s Jazz House N
- Roost N
- Ropeadope – Music Entertainment 3 N
- Ropeadope Records – Ropeadope Entertainment LLC – Tin Hat Trio – “the Rodeo Eroded” N
- Rosshashauna Music/Excellent Classical Song (BMI) N
- Rough Guides N
- Rough Guides – World Music Network N
- Rough Trade Records – World’s Fair N
- Roulette Jazz N
- Rounder – Philo N
- Rounder Records R
- Rounder Records Corp. – Alison Krauss + Union Station – New Favorite R
- Rounder Records Corp. – Alison Krauss – Now That I’ve Found You A Rollection R
- Rounder Records Corp. – Alison Krauss + Union Station Live discs 1 & 2 N
- Royal Opera House – Covent Garden Records N
- RPM Records/Columbia N
- RSO – Gema N
- Ruby Records N
- Ruf Records GmbH N
- Runaway N
- Ryko - Josh white Jr. with robin Batteau – Jazz, ballads & Blues R
- Ryko – New Acoustic Music N
- Ryko – Micky Hart – Planet Drum – The World 360 [see Au20 above] (Gold CD) R
- Ryko – The World – Rykodisc– 360 Productions Dafos R
- Saber Records N
- St. Clair – St. Clair Entertainment Group Inc. – ti Timeless – Jazz for Lovers N
- Salabert N
- Sandstone Music N
- Satellite Q One Voice – Ryo Kawasaki – Love Within R
- Sauerkrauts (The) – Auf Der Autobahn N
- SAVANT N
- Savoy Jazz – Jazz For A Mellow Morning discs 1 & 2 N
- SCI Fedelity Records N
- Scott Williams – SWCS-001 (a two CD set) N
- Secret Sun Recordings N
- Seduction Records – “Electrically Recorded” – Kalenka Anastasia – Russian Gold R
- Selva (Gold) N
- Sepia N
- Seraphim Classics – Angel Records N
- Shanachie – Spirit feel N
- Shanachie Entertainment Corp. N
- Shangri*La – Entertainment- Artist –ada N
- Sheffield lab N
- Sheffield lab – Sheffield Salon Series – Performed Live to Two-Track – Bach-Malloch: The Art of Fuguing R
- Sheffield lab – “Direct form the Masters” – James Newton Howard & Friends R
- Sheffield lab – Performed Live to Two-Track – Harry James…Comin’ From a Good Place R
- Sheffield lab – ”Direct from the Masters” – KODO Heartbeat Drummers of Japan R
- Sheffield lab – The Audiophile Reference Series -”My Disc” The Sheffield/Autosound 2000 Test Disc (Track 23 polarity ?) everything else R
- Sheffield lab – Performed Live to Two-Track – The McNeely-Levin-Skinner Band – After Midnight R
- Sheffield lab – For Component Testing & Evaluation – Improvisations By Jim Keltner & Ron Tutt The Sheffield Record,Robbie Buchanan – James Newton Howard – The Sheffield Track Record R
- Sheffield Lab – The Audiophile Reference Series – “My Disc” The Sheffield / Autosound 2000 Test Disc N
- Shiloh Records N
- SHO–BUD Music – Hatfield Rain – Matter of Time R
- Shout – The One N
- Shout Records – npr – The New Jazz Divas N
- Show Dog Nashiville -= TKO Artist Management – Universal N
- SIAE – Made in Italy by Opti.Me.S. N
- Siam Records N
- Signature Sounds N
- Signum Classics N
- Silva Screen Records N
- Silve Classics – Tito Beltran – The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conducted by Robin Stapleton N
- Silver Lining Records N
- Silver Wave Records R
- Silver Wave Records – Joanne Shenandoah – Peacemaker’s Journey R
- Silvertone Records N
- Simple Strings Records N
- Simply Red N
- Sine Qua Non N
- Sire/Warner Bros. N SKG Music Nashville LLC N
- SKG Music Nashville LLC N
- Slip N Slide – Def Jam Recordings N
- SM Capitol EMI – The Ventures – Walk- Don’t Run All- Time Greatest Hits R
- SMG Records N
- Smithsonian Folkways Recordings – Luiz Bonfa, Solo in Rio 1959 N
- Solid Air N
- Solid Air Records – Various Artists/ Acoustic Guitar Highlights Vol. 5 R
- Solid Air Records – Laurence Juber – Preston Reed – Grovemasters Vol. 1 R
- Solid Air Records – Acoustic Music Resource – Acoustic Guitar Highlights Volume 2 R
- Solitudes Environmental sound experiences – Sampler N
- Solo Fingerstyle Jazz Guitar N
- Song Images Jazz – Mango Eater Music – Terry Wollman – Say Yes R
- Sony 550 Music – Deep forest III – Comparsa
- Sony Concert Jazz Series Digital Recording – The Sony CD Sampler™ Volume One: Jazz – Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass R
- Sony – BMG BIA N
- Sony N
- Sony (Philips) Hybrid Multi-channel SACD CD layer GRV 1013 N
- Sony Classical – Essential Classics N
- Sony Classical – Leonard Bernstein – Maurice Ravel – Orchestre National de France R
- Sony Classical – Marcus Roberts – Portraits in Blue – Gershwin: Rhapsody In Blue, James P. Johnson: Y Amerkraw, Conducted by Robert Sadin R
- Sony Classical –Shalit N
- Sony Classical – Bela fleck & Edgar Meyer – Music For Two R
- Sony Classical – Edgar Meyer with Bela Fleck and Mike Marshall – Uncommon Ritual R
- Sony Classical DSD – Great Performances – Bernard Herman – ESA-Pekka Salonen R
- Sony Classical – Y0-Y0 Ma – Plays the music of John Williams R
- Sony Legacy DSD N
- Sony Music Special Products – Prentice Hall N
- Sony Music Special Products by Columbia Records N
- Sony Music Special Products by Columbia Records – Jeep grand Cherokee Infinity Gold Audio System R
- SOR Nashville N
- Soul What Records N
- Soundwings/Duke Street N
- SPAN
- Sparrow – Phil Keaggy Way Back Home N
- Special Music Company N
- Special Music Company (The) N
- Srarathan Records N
- SRRCD A Slow River Production! – Grace Braun – It Won’t Hurt R
- St.Clair Entertainment Group Inc. N
- Staggs Family Records N
- Star Sounds N
- Starbucks Coffee – Universal Music Special Markets R
- Stax – The Space- Sound- CD Dummy – Head Recording R
- Stax – Dummy Head Recording -The Warsaw Baroque Solists – Concerto Avena R
- StarZone Records N
- Stepple Chase – Kenny Drew Trio – Morning N
- SteepleChase – Shirley Horn Trio, All Night Long N
- Stemra N
- Stemra – Brillant Classics – Musica Amphion N
- Step – 1 N
- Stereophile – Bravo! N
- Stereophile – Concert CD 1 & 2 N
- Stereophile – Editor’s Choice samler & test cd STPH0016-2 N
- Stereophile – Test CD STPH-002-2 – tracks 1 -7 and up to 1:32 are N all the music tracks are inverted beginning at 1:33 of track #8, subsequent test tracks not evaluated M/P
- Stereophile – Test CD 2 STPH 004-2 N
- Stereophile – Test CD 3 STPH14-2 – tracks numbers 3, 4, 7, and 9 R
- Stet Records N
- Stomp Off Records N
- Stones Throw N
- Stony Plain Records N
- Stox N
- Stradivari Classics N
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- Swave – Best of Koffi Olmide R
- SYCOmusic – Columbia – Susan Boyle – I dream a Dream R
- Sycuan Resort & Casino Minutes Away Miles Apart N
- Synnara Music N
- TAA Usher N
- Take Two Records N
- Takoma Allegiance Leo Kottke – “6 and 12 String Guitar” R
- Tall Tree Records N
- Taylor-Made Recordings N
- Team Love N
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- Telarc Digital – Andre Previn with Joe Pass & Ray Brown – After Hours R
- Telarc Digital – Chiller R
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- Telarc Digital – Erich Kunzel- Cincinnai Pops Orchestra – Fantastic Journey R
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