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!!
@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. |
As a big supporter of SACDs over more than 20 years I feel they are being left behind with Blu-ray taking the torch . Don't know what led to this but new re-masters are all being issued on Blu-ray. To be honest I really like the Blu-ray versions. Even the 96k versions sound good and the 192k versions are special. |
Classic Film Scores - Citizen Kane. The film music of Bernard Herrmann. Conducted by Charles Gerhardt. The multi-channel SACD versions of all the RCA Red Seal series were sourced from the original multi-track London recordings. With over a dozen albums recorded during the 1970s, each one was dedicated to a leading Hollywood composer, or scores for a dedicated actor. Most have been released and sell for little outlay, £15 / $20 each. The majority of these LPs won A* / 1* reviews from The Gramophone & Hi-Fi News magazines. Back in the day, A= Recording, 1= Performance. The asterisk denoted a revision as the earlier top grades had been technically surpassed & production standards had improved over time. The pick of the bunch in my opinion is the Bernard Herrmann release. If you love pure film music professionally and faithfully reproduced with a 100 piece orchestra, look no further than this series. After 50 years the quality of these recordings still shine through.
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