Well you have to RECORD it to a master… and you choose the levels and dynamic range… So yes.
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I was the same at first, my brain always enjoyed far more OST from stuff I have watched before, but that was just my inability to take music for what it is and kept needing to mingle it with other enjoyable memories to make it really good.
That was ok however, since it was my gateway towards true music listening. After some ~20.000 tracks of music listened, my brain is now able to recognize instantly which music is really beautiful and needs to be in my collection. It often happens now for the process to be in reverse, finding really beautiful music and wanting to watch the movie or play the game as a consequence.
Otherwise I would never be able to enjoy classical properly, since most of it is not featured in movies and stuff like that. Actually, classical music is a good example of my next point: really good music is a story on it’s own. The long classical pieces are structured like this, they don’t count on small catchy passages to keep the listener entertained, but the whole “journey” is needed to properly appreciate the climax.
But Austin Wintory really has well-recorded music across the board. As far as I heard in his albums, his tool of trade is full orchestral music, not sampled stuff. That fits right in with “well-recorded”.
Oh, OK. So well-mastered is also a big part of the concept. I thought you only meant well recorded from the air. 
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not sure at all if these qualify especially cause Im posting the youtube links
this one im not at all sure if this is what is considered well recorded . but given it’s hip hop it’s rather clean and the way this song plays with 2 voices at the same time playing with both left and right channels is very interesting and is part of my headphone test playlist for imaging also just a great jazz rap song
Wow, thanks.
Post must be at least 20 characters. Yeah, yeah.
I recommend ‘Jazz at the Pawnshop’ by Arne Domnerus.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgHvUAT_HOE&list=PLdZhik4dyFHpzUVQrIixKZbgKG8eOKLgC
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Thought of a couple today. Adrian Belew has some really wonderfully produced solo albums. I would suggest Mr Musichead & Lone Rhinoceros. Also, if it hasn’t been mentioned in this thread yet, the new Tool is well worth looking into.
Just thought of one, Talking Heads Stop Making Sense movie soundtrack. Not only one of the best concert movies, but the remastered and expanded cd sounds amazing.
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REM - Automatic For The People,
Any modern Tool albums,
Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts,
Arcade Fire - Reflektor,
The Beatles - White Album (remaster),
King Crimson and Queen have recently remastered their catalogs and it’s worth checking out,
Muse - Origin Of Symmetry,
Any recent Nick Cave stuff,
St. Vincent - Masseduction,
Radiohead - OK Computer (OKNOTOK).
There is also a difference between a good mix and a good master. If the original was recorded well vs if the range of the recording is good.
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Buena Vista Social Club
Cheats - Evo Sessions
Loopless - 2006 a master piece of well recorded music.
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Another to add.
Steely Dan - Aja
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For anyone who loves well recorded acoustic guitar stuff (minus the youtube compression, the FLAC I have sounds amazing) 
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I just found this.
A wiki-like dynamic range database. CDs, vinyls, downloads, whatever.
It’s a wiki. Can you trust it? I don’t know. Still, there’s 142 000+ entries. Really interesting. You can search artists, albums you know… or sort by dynamic range.
On the last page (sorted by dynamic range), I found this. Yeah… You can hear the poor drum kick suffocating because of the compression. Lol.
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Radioheads A Moon Shaped Pool is really well recorded and HD tracks has a 48khz 24 bit versions for download. probably services like amazon hd and qobuz
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Really? I love that album, but I wouldn’t call it well recorded by any stretch of imagination (not referring just to the poor dynamic range).
Spectre is the best recorded song and it’s not even technically part of the album
EDIT: there is a Japanese SHM-CD release of the album, I’m kinda itching to get it, but I’m not sure if it’s even a different mastering.
good kid, m.a.a.d. city
Some of my favorites that come to mind…
Amanda Marshall - Amanda Marshall
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Paul Simon - Graceland
Peter Gabriel - So
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason
Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life
Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
Zac Brown Band - Uncaged
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