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.
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!!
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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. |
My experience has been similar, but somewhat different than others. On my system, in my room, all SACDs do not sound the same. Some sound a little better than standard "Red book" CDs, others sound significantly better. The best sounding SACDs in my collection, in no particular order are: Dire Straits Steely Dan Depeche Mode Mannheim Steamroller Duran Duran The Police Supertramp Michael Jackson Cat Stevens James Taylor Chris Isaak Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Pretty much any jazz or classical release I'm sure there are others in my collection, but I can't recall them... Anyhoo, you're pretty much guaranteed to get better sound with any SACD, from a fairly small difference, to an OMG difference, compared to the standard CD. |
@tomcarr +1
i have read critics that will complain about SACDs not sounding as good as CDs or LPs, such as Tom Fine, whose parents created Mercury Records and who is now a regular contributor to Stereophile. I couldn’t disagree more with him. For example the Paul Paray Charbier disc has much more presence in the Mercury SACD that was issued over 20 years ago. |
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