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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
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richardbrand
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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.

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hifi1967

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

Jamie Cullum - Twentysomething (2004) Verve

 

Happy Listening!

sls883
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I don't have very many SACDs although I do have a decent player.  This post inspired me to find one.  Dire Straits Brothers in Arms sounds really good. 

It took me a few minutes to figure out what I'm using for an interconnect.  It's a Graham Slee CuSat50.  Very nice cable.  Harder to get now with the tariffs. 

sls883
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Found another one.  Hourglass by James Taylor.  Excellent music. 

mitchagain
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One of my go-to SACD's is the debut album by AMERICA. This might seem like an unexpected choice; but, the original album was engineered by Ken Scott and the SACD mastering was done by Steve Hoffman.

Coincidentally, Paul McGowans's (PS Audio) daily post today (3/15) is about the reason(s) for the varying sound quality of SACD's ("Don't Blame the Delivery Driver."). 

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