SHARE YOUR SACDs THAT SOUND FANTASTIC!!


I am starting this thread at someone’s suggestion, and it was a VERY good suggestion!  Share the title, artist, and the SACD issuing company of really good sounding SACDs you've spent some time with.

I’ll get the ball rolling...

"WHITES OFF EARTH NOW!" by The Cowboy Junkies: MoFi.  Unfortunately, out of print, but I wouldn’t bat an eye at paying a hundred bucks for a copy due to the music and the sonics.  In my opinion, it sounds better than "Trinity Sessions".

"THE GIRL IN THE OTHER ROOM" by Diana Krall: Verve.  Coming up with the second was harder than the first because there are many to choose from.  This SACD is warm, palpable, punchy, dimensional, with truth of timbre in spades.  Very intimate sound.  As a system becomes more transparent, so does this disc, seemingly without end.

I won’t share any more because I don’t want to be an SACD hog.  LET’S HEAR ’EM!!

 

hifi1967

Warning:  Classical music suggested here!

Any of the RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence releases put out by Classic Records in the ‘90’s. A few:

1, Bartok:  Concerto for Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting, 1955. 82876-61390-2 RE1. A hybrid disc with the bonus tracks Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and Hungarian Dances available in 3 channel DSD (along with 2 channel DSD) if you have a multi-channel SACD set-up.

2. Chabrier:  Espana, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, conducting, 1957, 1959.  475 6183.  This hybrid release, too, has a 2 and 3 channel DSD copy of the original master tape. 
A couple from Columbia, though they being known more for their steely sounding orchestral recordings, these two are rare exceptions, and were from the very first batch of SACD releases. No CD layer on these however..
3.  Gershwin:  Rhapsody in Blue & An American in Paris, New York Philharmonic and The Columbia Symphony, Leonard Bernstein, conductor. SS 89033
4. The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli, the combined brass ensembles of the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago Orchestras. 1966 SS 89173.
Fun note, Abe Torchinsky, tubist with the Philadelphians, was my tuba professor at the University of Michigan in the mid 1970’s. He use to eat salami sandwiches during my lessons 🙄.

An absolutely stunning modern complete remake of #4 in both 2 channel and 5 channel DSD, (tho no CD layer):                              
5. Gabrieli:  National Wind Ensemble 2015.  Recorded at Skywalker Sound Stage  Oberlin Music   oberlin.edu/oberlinmusic

6.  Honorable mention:

Crosby, Stills and Nash (their first album) MoFi UDSACD 2228. Get rid of that grungy-ass original pressing you have and sing LOUDLY “Doo Doo Doo Doo Dit, Dit Doo, Doo Doo Doo Doo Dat” to this revelatory remastering.

I’m going to make this list my evening  Happy Listening!

 

1.  Shania Twain Up is a very good SACD recording.  It sounds amazing.

2.  Elvis 30 # 1 Hits sounded a lot better than I expected.  It sounds great.

3.  Fleetwood Mac Rumors sounds really good.

4.  Hall & Oates Rock N’ Soul Part 1 sounds really good as well.

5.  Supertramp Breakfast in America sounds good but doesn't have the mind blowing improvement on some others from what I remember.

5.  Yes 90125 was a disappointment.  Not the same level of sound improvement compared to those listed above.

6.  Just received Foreigner and Foreigner 4 but haven’t listened to them yet.

If you don't mind classical and jazz, Presto Music | All things musical… on your doorstep has over 6.000 new SACDs listed, together with recommendations, reviews, sound samples, etc.  There's nothing new about SACD in Europe.

In my opinion, if the label goes to the trouble of recording in multi-channel sound, the quality and the performance are usually good as well.

Also Grammy award winning 2L - the Nordic Sound has glorious immersive sound and usually delivers SACD and Pure Audio Blu-ray in the same pack, so you can compare up to 9 digital delivery technologies.

hifi1967

All of the above. Add this SACD- My Reference;

Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething (2004) Verve

 

Happy Listening!