10 sonically best rock recordings ?

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

All Steve Winwood, but "Arc of a Diver" is a must have.

Elvis Costello "Armed Forces"

U2 "The Joshua Tree"

All Dire Straits, in particular "Love Over Gold"

Steely Dan, all good, if you have to pick one, "Aja"

All Blue Rodeo, if you can only pick one "5 Days in May"

Metallica "Black Album"

All Pink Floyd, if you can only pick one "The Wall"

Rage Against the Machine "The Battle of Los Angeles"

All Manhatten Transfer (I know, it's jazz fusion)

Anything from The Alan Parsons Project.
The Who, remastered by MCA "Who’s Next" & "Live at Leeds".
Little Feat, Waiting for Columbus.
Los Lobos “Kiko”
Joe Walsh “The Confessor”
The Beatles “Abby Road”
Genesis remastered “Nursery Cryme”
Rush, remastered “Moving Pictures”
The Mavericks, “Trampoline” (HDCD)
The Allman Brothers Band, “The Fillmore Concerts”

I know The Mavericks are listed as a country but these dudes ROCK!!!

Stephen Stills: Stephen Stills, HDCD remastered first album, with Hendrix, Clapton, Booker T.

Doors: Strange Days remastered, this is what remastering is supposed to do: bring Morrison back to life!

Beatles: Abbey Road, the better your system, the better it sounds

Dire Straits: On Every Street, or most any other DS

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, and they almost are

Sting's latest sounds pretty good

Santana: Abraxas remastered

Who: Tommy, remastered, an album I have heard at least 500 times, but never like this

CCR: Born on the Bayou, remastered

Supertramp: Crime of the Century, okay so they're 70's schlock, but it still sounds great, and your toe WILL tap

I omit Hendrix and Zep because the remasters are excessively bright. Love the music, but they've ruined the sound.