10 sonically best rock recordings ?

The Best is MFSL's version of WHO's Next on the Gold CD. Just incredible !

There will be some confusion about who is in the "rock"
catagory, but here are some excellent CDs

Dire Straits...Sultans Of Swing, or any DS CD really
Pink Floyd...Dark Side Moon, also Wall, Wish You Were Here
Tom Petty...Anthology
REM...Automatic, New Adventures in HIFI
Roxy Music...Avalon remaster
Cranberries...Everybody Else (1st album)
Radiohead...OK Computer
ZZ Top...Greatest Hits
Stray Cats...Runaway Boys (retrospective 81-92)
Massive Attack....Mezzanine
NIN...Fragile

I purposely don't mention Cowboy Junkies, Lucinda Williams,
Jennifer Warnes etc, they sound good but are over recommended here.

"Best" is hard, as is "Rock", to specifically define, but here's several I think rate:

Tool - Aenima

Queensryche - Promised Land

Dream Theater - take your pick

Massive Attack - Mezzanine

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (and several others)

Days of the New - both albums

Metallica - Master of Puppets (DCC)

Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien (MFSL)

Counting Crows - This Desert Life

Dire Straits - pretty much all of them.

Tori Amos, while probably not rock per se, has incredibly high sonics on her releases, as well. -Kirk