What's the Latest Stereo (or Mono) SACD in Your Collection?

[The Rang]

Picked up the last 6 Audio Fidelity titles from my US ship to:

Eric Clapton - Journeyman
Styx - Paradise Theater
Rush - Presto
Renaissance - Scherezade
Legends - Crank it up
Legends - Get it on

 

[fredblue]

Retrospective - Herman's Hermits.

http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/2261

 

[fredblue]

A Sound Spectacular - Antiphonal Music Of Gabrieli - The Glorious Sounds Of Brass (Single Layer SACD).

http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/323

 

[cupboy]

A Sound Spectacular - Antiphonal Music Of Gabrieli - The Glorious Sounds Of Brass (Single Layer SACD).

http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/323

That's a pretty lousy review on sa-cd. Do you agree with it?

 

[fredblue]

That's a pretty lousy review on sa-cd. Do you agree with it?

It is pretty damning! I've also read a review elsewhere at some point (I'll look for it & post details) and that reviewer said it sounded excellent and particularly good thru PLII Music. I'll update once I've given it a listen.

 

[fredblue]

My mistake, the reviewer said it was good thru UHJ..

"Nineteen brass virtuosi from the Philadelphia, Cleveland and Chicago Symphonies were brought together at Philadelphia's Town Hall for this brass fest recorded in 1966 and 1968. About half of the 32 tracks are devoted to the expected source for early antiphonal music - Giovanni Gabrieli and his Canzonas and Sonatas that placed groups of players in various balconies around St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice. The rest of the SACD features brass works by Brade, Pezel, De Lassus and Holborne. Two thirds of these works are performed by two of the three brass ensembles spatially separated for the call-and-response effects of these works. The remaining one-third employ all three brass groups for a really spectacular sound.

The original Columbia LPs were full of distortion and are best forgotten. A few years ago Sony Classical reissued the first 13 Gabrieli works on this SACD (paired with an E. Power Biggs album of music for organ and brass) as one of their Masterworks Heritage remastered series. Using 20-bit and SBM, this series set high sonic standards. It also had a printed chart in the notes that was unfortunately missing from the SACD notes: it laid out clearly all 13 tracks, identified which brass ensembles were heard on each one and whether they were located on the left, center or right. A/B comparison of that CD with the new SACD showed a number of improvements, if of a subtle nature: When all the brass blasted together at high volume there was a smearing effect on the CD that was ameliorated greatly on the SACD, with individual voices standing out whereas before they were hidden in the sonic mush. There was more of a sense of the reverberant acoustics of Town Hall, similar to the effect found on most classical HDCD-encoded discs (when properly decoded). Though I had been doing most of the comparisons on only my left and right front speakers with the Cantares surround processor out of the loop, I was moved to fire up the processor and select the UHJ setting. I got a wonderful surround field that with a little adjustment of the front-to-back levels came close to replicating a discrete five-channel recording."


Source: http://www.enjoythemusic.com/audiophileaudition/0201/sacdreviews.htm

 

[corneredcat]

Neil Young...Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968...dvda 2 chnl

Albert King...I'll Play the Blues For You...sacd 2 chnl

 

[fredblue]

Now - Noa.

http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1205

 

[fredblue]

Popular Songbook - Alan Lomax.

http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1277

 

[corneredcat]

Paul Butterfield/Blues Band - East West [AF/SACD 2014]

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how is AQ on this one?

 

[soundboy]

 

[bmoura]

How is the Jose Feliciano SACD? Where did you buy it?

 

[soundboy]

How is the Jose Feliciano SACD? Where did you buy it?

I just received the above SACDs yesterday, so I haven't had the chance to unwrap them. The Jose Feliciano SACD was purchased online at hifi-cd.com....

http://www.hifi-cd.com/utf-8/produc...SD&products_id=23615&language=cn&c_lang=utf-8

 

[fredblue]

Super Audio Best - Jose Feliciano (Hybrid SACD).

 

[warp2600]

Please tell us your impressions of the new Kitaro sacd when you have had the chance to take a listen.

 

[cupboy]

Super Audio Best - Jose Feliciano (Hybrid SACD).

So, how is it? From the original master or needle drops or ?

 

[fredblue]

So, how is it? From the original master or needle drops or ?

I haven't had a chance to listen yet but hope to this evening.

 

[fredblue]

Tago Mago - Can (Hybrid SACD).

http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/2437

 

[fredblue]

So, how is it? From the original master or needle drops or ?

Just in case you missed my post over in the dedicated thread..

These are NOT the original recordings...


.. plus the sound is lousy.. bright, thin, digital.. YUCK

:howl :flame

 

[cupboy]

Just in case you missed my post over in the dedicated thread..

These are NOT the original recordings...


.. plus the sound is lousy.. bright, thin, digital.. YUCK

:howl :flame

I've asked Top Music about this. I'll see what they have to say.