Best sacd's

[hwkn]

Nick Drake's A Treasury hybrid SACD's pretty good imho[and in 5.1 btw].

 

[bholz]

Nick Drake's A Treasury hybrid SACD's pretty good imho[and in 5.1 btw].

I'll 2nd that. I just got this disc about 2 weeks ago. VERY NICE!

One that stunned me is Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker". Amazing!

Bill

 

[adam71]

Toto - IV
Santana - Abraxas
and ANYTHING on the "LIVING STEREO" label. Their 3 channel mixes are to die for.

 

[dobyblue]

One that stunned me is Ryan Adams "Heartbreaker". Amazing!

I enjoy Heartbreaker a lot also, fantastic fidelity.

The SACD release of Ryan Adams "Gold" is also fantastic and is multi-channel.

I wish they'd put out "Love is Hell" though to join the other three SACD releases, that's my favourite album of his.

 

[BigPadg]

Floyd's DSOTM

Are you forgetting Pink Floyd, DSOM?
While far from my favorite PF recording; it almost by itself justfies the invention of SACD. IMHO.

This SACD is the most disappointing and unimpressive of all the SACDs or DVD-Audios I've bought so far. Little was done in the making to isolate instruments in the surround channels. For the most part, the rears only echo the fronts. For one of the best stereo recordings ever, it's a shame they didn't work harder on the mixing of this SACD.

 

[j_garcia]

This SACD is the most disappointing and unimpressive of all the SACDs or DVD-Audios I've bought so far. Little was done in the making to isolate instruments in the surround channels. For the most part, the rears only echo the fronts. For one of the best stereo recordings ever, it's a shame they didn't work harder on the mixing of this SACD.

They weren't trying to isolate things, they were after a very particular effect of having the sound come across as everywhere in many cases. In a number of places on this disc, the sound is isolated to one speaker in a very subtle way, or the sound moves from speaker to speaker or around the room. It is a very well done mix.