This ranking is copied from a Japanese book. IMHO, it is worth of trust or at least as a reference.

• Group One (Top Ten, list by alphabetic order)
  • Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
  • Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra
  • Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  • Cleveland Orchestra
  • Dresden Staatskapelle
  • London Symphony Orchestra
  • Orchestre de Paris
  • Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
  • Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
  
  
• Group Two (Top Twenty other than above top ten, list by alphabetic order)
  • BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
  • City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
  • French National Orchestra
  • Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
  • London Philharmonic Orchestre
  • Los Angeles Philharmonic
  • Montreal Symphony Orchestra
  • Moscow Radio and Television Symphony Orchestre
  • Munich Philharmonic Orchestre
  • New York Philharmonic
  • North German Radio Orchestra
  • Philadelphia Orchestra
  • Philharmonia Orchestra
  • Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
  • San Francisco Symphony
  • St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
  • State Symphonique Orchestre of Russia
  • Swiss Romande Orchestra