SHARE YOUR SACDs THAT SOUND FANTASTIC!!

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.

@jasonbourne71   You are absolutely right, provided you like the stones, which I do (especially their early stuff).  It's not that the recording quality suddenly becomes GREAT on SACD, (they weren't recorded well) but SACD has the capability of "organizing" things so they make sense, which CD, and yes, vinyl fail to do.  There are so many little things they were doing in the studio that can be heard via SACD.​​​​​​

@porchlight1 Hey!  A fellow tuba player!  (Percussionist too)

We tuba players have to stick together though!

@propoke what company made your Rumors SACD?.  Mine says "Warner Brothers Japan" and the writing in the booklet is all Japanese.  It sounds awful.  If you have a better one, I'd like to know what to look for.

@hifi1967   You caught me listing a couple brass ensemble SACDs.  Enjoy!