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

Forgot two other SACD's that I really like.  The Cars debut and The Cars Heartbeat City.  I wish Candy-O was available as a SACD.  Others I wish were available is Steve Winwood's Back In The High Life and Head Games by Foreigner.  

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.

 

I just got a 4K BluRay player and SACD player.  The 20th anniversary edition of Dire Straits Brothers in Arms sounds excellent in 5.1 surround sound.  I’ll be buying more SACDs.   Just ordered a used multichannel SACD of Derek and the Dominoes Layla and other assorted love songs.  More to come.

Anyone interested in SACDs should really check out the Japanese  SHM SACDs they were  issued almost 20 years ago but their fidelity is excellent. 

The newer AP issues sound harder but it's good to have them because the SHM SACDs were incomplete. 

I found a CD copy of Cowboy Junkies "Whites Off Earth Now" at Goodwill. I thought the title was ridiculous, so without ever listening to it, I sent it to a friend along with several others. He can't stop thanking me! He swears it's the best sounding CD he owns. He loves the sound of Margo Timmins voice, and describes it as "sultry'. The record was made in the 90's, so I was surprised to see the recent listener-review here that agreed with my friend. Apparently, the unusual recording equipment contributed to the sound.