Moody Blues "Question of bal." CD or SACD vs Vinyl

I am interested in which of the formats that I have is closest to "correct".
I'm not sure what "correct" means. I would say "what sounds the best to you". In my case, the Mofi cd sounds much better than the SACD. The SACD, although sounding more expansive, also has more noise and distortion in both the 5.1 and 2 channel. I provided a demo for a sales rep at a local hi-end store, who insisted that SACD was the best. After listening, he had to agree that the Mofi sounded better.
Mike

Hi all,
Several comments on the Moody Blues' albums in general:
Having attended is some 30 plus concerts including venues like DAR Constitutional Hall and Lisner in the DC area, the Wang center in Boston, etc. I can say the albums in any of the formats pale in comparison. I have had the vinyl copies (original US), CDs (German imports from from early 80's (the original cd?), the MFSL cds, SACDs and dts cds of DOFP and Seventh Sojourn, but to me the most exciting format was the Quadrophinic releases (except ISOTLC was not recorded in quad) in the early seventies on reel to reel!!! Unfortunately, my reel to reels got ripped off while in storage. The 8-track quads while a little noisy but had excellent sonics. But back to the current formats, I find all the MOFI CDs to be pleasing more so than vinyl, the SACDs to me have more distortion and the song "Question" is horroribly mixed. For DOFP and Seventh Sojourn, I like the dts versions the best. For clarification, I much prefer surround sound over stereo when mixed properly. It's like being at a studio concert. Anyway, as a big time Moodies fan, it's my 2 cents.

I agree that Justin is a fantastic songwriter, vocalist and has one of the sweetest guitar sounds ever. I was fortunate to catch Justin doing his solo tour (in 1996, I believe) at the Birchmere in Arlington, Va. He did the classic Moodies stuff along with solo efforts including several cuts from The View From the Hill album. I enjoyed the older Moodies concerts more than the more recent ones. They miss a lot without Pinder and Thomas vocals. Also the synthesizers are just not a as mellow as the mellotron /chamberlain. Pinder was the master, as he also worked for the company in his early years. Although he has not done anything lately, his albums "The Promise" and "Among the Stars" are nice. Again with the early Moodies, it was the vocals and Pinder & Thomas were as important as Hayward and Lodge. Unfortunately these days, Lodge's vocal are very erratic and in a couple of concerts attended, just plain bad. Solo efforts from Hayward, (Songwriter, Moving Mountains, and The View from the Hill) and Hayward - Lodges (Blue Jays) are also great.

MAPMAN,
Well put. I echo your comments, BUT do yourself a favour.GET Justin's "Moving Mountains", "View fron the Hill", "Classic Blue" (he does covers of others great work like "stairway to Heaven", "Blackbird",etc.) and his DVD "Live in San Juan Capistrano" You won't be disappointed!!!