Listening to Now In SACD Stereo (or Mono)

[marpow]

I seem to always be chasing this album, trying to find the best.
Nothing in surround, but I have 4 stereo versions now.
This recent stereo SACD from Analogue Productions, released 5/10/2024 is pretty good. Bass and midrange superior, highs a touch bright.
Disclaimer: I have Tinnitus, so always sensitive to brightness in any form of audio.
Ripped DSF file, DSD64. DR's are 10, 11, 12's, 13's, 14.
I compared to my stereo HDTracks release, and I like this SACD better.
I also have a MQA and a CD release that I did not compare.

 

[kap'n krunch]

I seem to always be chasing this album, trying to find the best.
Nothing in surround, but I have 4 stereo versions now.
This recent stereo SACD from Analogue Productions, released 5/10/2024 is pretty good. Bass and midrange superior, highs a touch bright.
Disclaimer: I have Tinnitus, so always sensitive to brightness in any form of audio.
Ripped DSF file, DSD64. DR's are 10, 11, 12's, 13's, 14.
I compared to my stereo HDTracks release, and I like this SACD better.
I also have a MQA and a CD release that I did not compare.
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the Multis for OoalHeart are a LOT of fun! I have done a 7.1.4 mix and it sounds really good!

 

[The Rang]

Dick Schory’s New Percussion Ensemble -
Music For Bang, Baa-Room and Harp

Curiosity made me buy this SACD.
The sound is remarkably spacious for a 1958 recording. The music is good if a bit gimmicky at times. Can’t see me playing it often but glad to have it.

 

[The Rang]

Van Halen - II

Never owned this album before, figured I knew little or nothing from it.
Wrong…recognize 4 of the 10 tracks. The rest are great too.
Sounds really fresh and dynamic to me, very nice. Shocked that this came out the year I graduated from high school, doesn’t sound dated at all (unlike myself).
Mastered low though, really have to crank it, which is a good thing.

 

[barfle]

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Dick Schory’s New Percussion Ensemble -
Music For Bang, Baa-Room and Harp

Curiosity made me buy this SACD.
The sound is remarkably spacious for a 1958 recording. The music is good if a bit gimmicky at times. Can’t see me playing it often but glad to have it.

Dick Sshory was interested in exploring a lot of ‘where can I go with this” sort of music. He was very experimental, even inventing his own scale.

Not to everyone’s taste, but very cool to me.

 

[The Rang]

Ray Charles - Genius + Soul = Jazz

Great album, tons of jump and energy

 

[4-earredwonder]

The Human League DON'T YOU WANT ME: THE COLLECTION [UMG HONG KONG/STEREO SACD] A Sonic MASTERPIECE! 19 choice tracks and everyone's a winner. Played on my new system via DSP surround, sounds swirled all over the room. A natural for the SDE ATMOS BD~A treatment. VERY highly recommended

 

[The Rang]

Peter Frampton - Wind of Change

An auspicious debut, excellent album. Haven’t compared to the Doug Sax mastered CD from 2000 but my immediate sense was that this Intervention SACD sounds better.