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

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)

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.

Getz and Gilberto
John Coltrane With Johnny Hartman                                                           Surrealistic Pillow - Jefferson Airplane

I have hundreds of Classical SACDs.  Rather than list standouts let me recommend a few labels.  This by no means comprehensive.

  First off, for new DSD recordings, I recommend the Swedish label BIS. (They were purchased a bit back by Apple, but so far they haven’t destroyed the quality).  Particularly with small ensemble recordings, I have had many discs where the musicians sound as though they’re in the room.

  Tower Records of Japan has an excellent collection of analog recordings, mostly from the seventies, remixed for SACD.  I am particularly fond of the Karajan and Kurt Sanderling reissues.  Pricey but there are deals on eBay