Many of the old RCA Living Stereo releases (Reiner/CSO) still hold up. Some of Decca's records, especially anything recorded at The Maltings, Snape (Britten, cond.); many Solti recordings too. In early digital, DG has the edge: e.g., Mutter's Bach and Perlman's Sibelius.

But, honestly, sound quality is nowhere near so important as interpretive ability: Furtwängler's Bruckner will beat anyone's.

Yep, Jochum has quite a few, his cycle(s) are legendary.  IN fact I've been listening to his 5th recently, the one on DG.  Great sound and it's like 50 years ago.

And Solti's 8th with Chicago was my standby for many years, just to hear the famous Chicago trombones blast it out in the opening of the 4th mvt.  I still have that CD (somewhere) but never transferred it to my computer, thanks for reminding me!!

I've been listening to the Chailly cycle lately, I know recording quality is not the most important, but damn the brass sound amazing coming out of planars.  Who cares about interpretation when you've got brass causing your ears to bleed.

And I hear ya Claritas, Furtwangler is great, there are quite a few of his 8th's out there, I have a few on CD I haven't listened to in a long time.  But it was such a revelation to hear him the first time, to hear him be so organic with the tempo and basically just build up to the climax at a frenzy tempo-wise, Bruckner is usually played like Bach in that respect.  I have that recent RCA living stereo set, Ive only listened to a few CDs though.

Anyways thanks for the suggestions, but I'm also looking for specifically good sound, recent labels.  Maybe it doesn't matter.  I was shocked to listen to to some 60's stuff (any label, EMI, Decca, etc) and find the sound pretty damn amazing.

In case you haven't figured it out, my handle is short for Brucknerian.

Aside from the obvious Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, Telarc, RCA Living Stereo, I like a lot of BIS releases. Also recently discovered Pentatone, Teldec, DUX for a lot of Polish stuff, Caro Mitis. For real audiophiley stuff try 2L (Linberg Lyd), Linn, Reference Recordings.

Cool trick if you have Spotify: search for label:"Label name" to find all the releases from a given label that are available. You can also include it along with artist or composition names to narrow things down.

Aside from the obvious Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, Naxos, Telarc, RCA Living Stereo, I like a lot of BIS releases. Also recently discovered Pentatone, Teldec, DUX for a lot of Polish stuff, Caro Mitis. For real audiophiley stuff try 2L (Linberg Lyd), Linn, Reference Recordings.

Cool trick if you have Spotify: search for label:"Label name" to find all the releases from a given label that are available. You can also include it along with artist or composition names to narrow things down.

RCA is long gone from the classical business.  The RCA Living Stereo reissues are mostly decent performances, and they sound great for having been mostly recorded in the late 1950s.  But whoever owns the RCA Red Seal catalog needs to start reissuing some of the amazing stuff they have in their vault--everything from the Rubinstein/Boston Symphony recording of the "Emperor" Concerto to the first Western recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 13, with Tom Krause and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy.

The "indie" labels that I seem to buy the most stuff from are Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Chandos, and BIS.  A fair number of major orchestras now have their own in-house labels.  The San Francisco Symphony was one of the first to make that move, and their high-res PCM Mahler cycle (most of which is also available in DSD from Downloads Now) is to die for.  LSO Live (London Symphony) has a great Sibelius symphonies cycle conducted by Gergiev.  Wigmore Hall Live releases performances that were held there, and they have some great stuff (most notably a three disc set of Beethoven violin sonatas by Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Thibergien).