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!!
I recently purchased a Marantz SA-KI Ruby SACD player, and the sound quality has driven me into a collection frenzy of SACD/CD media. I have a few that stand out so far, including Bill Evans - Explorations, Diana Krall - Live in Paris, and Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms. Surprisingly, even Redbook CD’s sound better on this player, so I’ve also been acquiring quite of few of these. Chick Corea’s Return to Forever and his Five Trios box set are both fantastic. It’s a Rabbit hole, really! |
A timely subject. I upgraded to the new PS Audio transport and DAC last year. As mentioned already the Elton John series from the early 2000’s are really good and also have 5.1 mixes. All the Stones I have on SACD sound really good. They have a nice balance. Besides the ABKCO series, the 40th anniversary box sets for Beggars and Let it be included SACD’s with both mono and stereo mixes and are excellent. I like the Santana MoFi’s but the Sony Japan series from 2020 that is housed in 7” single packaging and includes all the mixes you want are exceptional. Lotus is revelatory. Richard Thompson - Rumor & Sigh (mofi) Simon & Garfunkel- Bookends (mofi) Procol Harum - A Salty Dog (mofi) James Gang - Rides Again (mofi) Dave Brubeck - Time Out (AP) Eddie Money - Two Tickets (AP) Rod Stewart - Every Picture (Japan SHM- SACD) Bud Shank - Barefoot Adventures (Impex) Earth, Wind & Fire - Gratitude (Columbia Legacy) |
@propoke Thank you for this reply. This helps a lot! |
I found Los Lobos "Kiko" to be a step up from the rebook CD_it's a MoFi Original Master, Special Edition. Same story for Alan Parsons Project, "I Robot" Rickie Lee Jones, "Traffic From Paradise", an Analogue Production, made in Austria, Kevin Grey remaster is excellent. My DK's Girl In The Other Room has a multi channel layer that I need to throw on my HT system again...usually listen on "best sound", stand-alone 2ch headphones system, love "Temptation". On the HPs the sound on her "Live In Paris" is redbook but remarkable dynamics! Finally a very fun listen on the HT again is Point Yellow, a BlueRay, Dolby Atmos disk that moves the sound stage around the room...also has a 24/96 LPM 2ch layer. |
