What is the awesome Jazz music played in the smoking scene in Animal House?

Where can I find modernly mastered, high audio quality recordings of classical music, e.g., like the Vivaldi symphony scene in House of Cards Season 1, Episode 1?

• Especially baroque- and classical-era symphonies and operas. In contrast, all my classical music from over the years sounds bland and shallow, even -- especially? -- when played on a high-end home theatre. Another example: , there's a scene in the beginning where Nightcrawler is rampaging the White House, set to the glorifying and goose bump-inducing choir of Dies irae from Mozart's Requiem. So, question: where can I find new, modern audio recordings of some of the greatest operas and symphonies of the 18th and 19th centuries?

• Answer:

  I think that you confuse "dynamic depth and range" with "loudness". Classical music on CD often has a dynamic range of at least 30db or so, from a single harp playing softly to the whole orchestra going full out. Electronic house music has almost no dynamic range: everything is loud. Find a friend with some audio software, and have him compress the shit out of a piece of classical music, probably add some subbass and put an exciter on it, and you may find what you're looking for.