Any other vinyl as quiet as ECM?

Contemporaneous with '80s ECM, some of the best avant garde jazz both sonically and artistically was on Soul Note, Pablo & Black Saint. Guys like Jimmy Guiffre, David Murray, Paul Bley, Art Farmer, Billy Bang, Anthony Braxton, Leroy Jenkins. Not very expensive at a good used record store.

02-07-09: Xiekitchen
ECM back into vinyl, wow!
TVAD: if you have not heard Metheny on ECM German Imported pressings... THESE are the one's to get.

I have most of the Metheny ECMs and the sonics are excellent. I discovered Metheny via Gary Burton, as I'd been a Burton fan since 1968 and really took note when Burton moved from Atlantic to ECM, and then when Metheny joined Burton's quartet. Burton's ECM albums also sound great, as do the ones from guitarists John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner.

I recently picked up a used copy of Jack DeJohnette's "Works" on ECM. Just phenomenal!

I have found that almost all of the used ECM vinyl I have purchased has been exceptionally quiet as long as a visual inspection does not show any scratches or scuffs. I cannot say the same for other record companies' releases.

A couple people have mentioned Pablo, so I'll certainly look for that label, as well as the others mentioned here.

Thanks everyone.

Every Pablo I have ever bought, all of them used, has sounded fantastic. Just about every Verve, too. And of course, the Blue Notes, but I almost never get any opportunities to pick one of those up in my area.

I have plenty of used Verve that sound like crap.