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

mitchagain
505 posts
 

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."). 

winoguy17
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Eleanor Mcevoy   Early Hours

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slaw
26,461 posts
 

Bob Dylan "Freewheelin'".....

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otimmons
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Fairytales by Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz is stellar. It is a simple singer + piano performance done in a room with fascinating acoustics. It was recorded in 1982 and issued on LP and then CD. In 2017 Bob Stuart remastered it to SACD in a hybrid disc with an MQA version on the CD layer. His work was a labor of love and it shows. Overtones are rich. Decays are forever. This is the first thing I played after I bought my ultimate speakers.

As great mastering can make a memorable recording, bad mastering can ruin one. I bought Excitable Boy to replace my 1978 LP, or so I thought. The SACD lacked all sense of life. I asked myself where the magic went. It was on the LP audible through the pops.

It's not all in the mastering but mastering matters quite a lot.

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