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.

 

[Quad Linda]

Bookends - Simon & Garfunkel
Giant Steps - John Coltrane AP
Dark Magus - Miles Davis
Still Crazy & Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
Ella & Louis Again - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong Japan SHM-SACD
Study in Brown - Clifford Brown Japan mono SHM-SACD

 

[Tribby2001]

Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group - LIVE
MoFi cat# UDSACD2276 Hybrid Stereo SACD

 

[The Rang]

Peter Frampton - Frampton’s Camel

Another good album from Peter (if a bit on the soft side) and home of the studio version of Do You Feel Like We Do but the sound on this SACD is a definite step back from what is heard on Winds Of Change IMO. I’ll compare to the Doug Sax CD one of these days to determine which I like better.

 

[weekendtoy]

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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).

I think I'm more shocked that you made it 45 years without hearing this album in its entirety

 

[humprof]

I posed your query to Shane Buettner at Intervention Records; he replied, "Efforting."

I wish he'd try a little harder! (But in the end, I'm with @Rhinojack: this would be a dream multichannel release--and in the right hands it could be a reference Atmos mix.)

Night and Day is also the subject of Josh Mound's latest "The Best Version Of...." at AudiophileStyle. Deep dive, great read.
https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/the-...version-of…-joe-jacksons-night-and-day-r1286/

 

[The Rang]

Peter Frampton - Frampton

Good album, quite a few tracks were made popular on the live album. The sound is pretty good though about half the tracks are annoying in that the sound leans to the left, especially the vocals which are noticeably off centre.