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

mahler123
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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 

robert53
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The Mofi Brothers in Arms SACD sounds really good. 

As far as Fleetwood Mac, The Mofi  Tango in the Night LP sounds excellent. I don't have the SACD though.

fred60
157 posts
 

All the Rolling Stones SACD's on ABKCO sound fantastic!  Too bad they went to their own label, which all sound like crap.  Beggars Banquet is probably the best sounding.  But again, any ABKCO release on SACD sounds great.  You can't go wrong.

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jkbunnell
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If I echo previous suggestions, I apologize.  I have a PS Audio PerfectWave SACD Transport, connected via HDMI (I²S) to a PS Audio DirectStream DAC MKII, which unfold for playback the highest resolution SACD layer to DSD64.  Wonderful sound.

My Discogs database says I have 178 SACDs.  Most are MoFi and Analogue Productions remastered reissues, many are which are out-of-print and therefore spendy.  Of all I have, the Doors SACD box is great, as are the Hendrix "Are You Experienced?" and "Axis: Bold As Love," all on Analogue Productions.  The label also offers Steely Dan, Beach Boys, Genesis, et al.

MoFi's are great, be it Dylan, The Band, Joni, Miles, CSN & Crosby's first solo, etc.

As for classical, sets on Alla Vox, Chandos, Sony, Channel Classics, BIS, and RCA Red Seal reissues are worth pursuing. 

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