Moody Blues "Question of bal." CD or SACD vs Vinyl

I have all my original Moody Blues vinyl (in very good shape, too) and I have the MoFi Gold CD of "Days of Future Past".

The CD and all the vinyl are disappointing to me. Meaning not sonically spectacular as I remember them back in the day. Perhaps it was my occaisionally altered state? My system is much better now of course, but some of the old albums (like any of Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, or Simon and Garfunkle) are still amazing sonically, and some (like any of the Doors, and some of Neil Young) just sound flat to me.

I've never been able to figure that one out, but I can imagine that giving the dissapointing ones the SACD treatment (or even the XRCD treatment) might breath new life into them.

I'm going to A-B the vinyl/CD Days of Future Past again this afternoon, and see if I still underwhelmed.

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Nsgarch,

The SACD of "Balance" has an instantly noticable fullness compared to the CD.
I will eagerly await your response to find out if the vinal gives that same very noticeable difference.

Richard
PS> I too have a MUCH better system then when I originally listened to the record; and often in an altered state, which as we know can make everything sound fabulous.

I posted this in another thread but since you asked......

I have original first release US pressings of all the vinyl on the Deram and Threshold labels. I also have Days of Future Passed through Seventh Sojourn on MOFI CD and first release compact disc. The MOFI compact discs are marginally better than the regular compact discs but both pale in comparison to the vinyl IMO.

I've not heard the SACD and have no plans to purchase as I feel in my case it is money better spent elsewhere.

Good luck.

The MoFi vinyl pressing is inarguably better than the original US, UK and especially Japanese LP's. The original tapes are clearly of mediocre fidelity (Lodge and Hayward have long ago said such, also) and there's little that could be done, but MoFi did the best job with its Anadisc 2000 issue.

The SACD is wonderful sounding reworking, giving the very believable and acceptable illusion that the original recording was pretty good. Even as a purist I am very happy with the results.

So - the SACD ain't the original, but it's a much better option than anything on vinyl except the MoFi vinyl issue. I think that it would be virtually impossible to pick the MoFi over the SACD and vice-versa.

aside from the original pressings on Deram, the japanese mini lp cd is the best.