my favorites are sheikh Sudais and Shuraim... I find their voices sincere and beautiful ... I don't feel they try to add excessive melody in the recitation... it feels like it's coming from the heart, you can see their voice change on certain verses and if you read the translation, you'll understand why...although, I wish sheikh Shuraim would read a bit slower but hey :mmokay:
the reason I brought this up is:
a)they are my favorites :brother:
b)listening to recitation has helped me lots in memorizing surahs.
it started like this: my roomate last semester was some crazy dude who listened to rock all day... I got pretty sick of it so I said to myself, how do I oppose this ?:muddlehea well listen to the Quran of course. So I popped in a CD my uncle send me 3 years ago -- recitation of the Quran by sheikh Sudais and Shuraim.
I think I ended up listening to surah Mudassir close to a 100 times... I didn't count, but I listened to it again and again and again and didn't get tired of it... then said to myself, hmmm maybe I should read the meaning too and so

later I thought, hmm maybe I should read the arabic too as having a snapshot of the huruf in your head is a must ... thanks to Allah it has remained in my mind in both arabic and translation (parts I remember in urdu and parts in english) ... I ended up doing the same with surah Muzammil, Yaseen, Saffaat (and currently my favorite surah Fatir -- please pray to Allah I can memorize this one .. its verses just shake the soul, that's how I feel) ...I just wanted to share this with others. Maybe try listening to these surahs, read the arabic and read the meaning so you can enjoy this too.
What I didn't realize was that when one memorizes Allah's words, one has a responsibility to remember them. I am able to currently read the Quran and listen to tilawa as I am on my co-op work term (temp. full time job)... but when I go back to university (insha-Allah), because my course is so messed up, there is barely time to sleep (it is my selfishness and own fault for choosing such a course but it's too late to switch at this stage)... so I'm considering buying an ipod mini to listen to the tilawa while going to class and so on... anyway, I hope it was somewhat helpful.