Baccusboy
05-04-08, 09:47 PM
What are your favorite SACD discs, in terms of incredible sound? Please help an uncultured novice keep from making useless SACD purchases!
I've recently started buying/collecting SACD's, and due to the format, a lot of them out there are jazz and classical. As you know, there's not much available for rock. I'm interested in finding some incredible guitar or singing which feels alive in the room.
Here's what I now own:
1. Ray Charles: Ray sings/Basie Swings
2. The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
3. Badi Assad Verde
4. Natalie Cole: Ask a Woman Who Knows
5. Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
I have also purchased several from Amazon which will be delivered to my USA home, and I will pick up in a few months when I head back.
So far, I've been somewhat unimpressed by the rock music -- finding them to be a bit of a disappointment. I purchased Brother's In Arms as my first disk, and find it's decent. I kind of burned myself out on their music when I owned this standard DVD several years ago.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/images/albums/9510direstraits_brothersinarms.jpg
Zenyatta Mondatta is 2 channel, and quite limited by the source material, I'd say. Pretty cool cardboard box picture montage inside, though.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00009P57N.03.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
Natalie Cole is probably our favorite disc.
http://image.libro.co.kr/music/f75/f758678314478_1.jpg
I only purchased it because I had seen a news story about her being the daughter of Nat King Cole, and thought she'd have a nice voice on SACD. The disc does sound really nice, although I feel they didn't let her voice air out enough (perhaps compressed at the mic). The instruments are mixed nicely as multi-channel, and the disc is very much an improvement over standard DVD.
My 2nd favorite would be Ray Charles:
http://www.fg-naxos.fi/images/Kevyet%202007/sacd63679_ray_charles.jpg
Although the age of the source material/microphone hinders the ability of this disc. It still sounds very nice, and is mixed well.
The oddball disk I have is one I picked up at a local record shop here in Seoul. It's Badi Assad Verde.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002VCU1O.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
Her music is very... uh... strange! It was a disappointment in that the instruments sound so lifelike in multi-channel, only to have her goofy voice trounce over the top of them. The instruments are almost alive in the room! Her voice, however, is kind of psychotic and annoying (also in Spanish and French mostly, I think). Her voice was recorded better than ANY of my discs, and I find myself listening to this disc merely because of the way it was recorded. It seemed as if her music, although really odd, was recorded for SACD with mics placed around the room in certain positions next to the instruments -- she's got a weird sound, but it's recorded incredibly. Wow, what a difference that makes compared to the current crop of flat-sounding rock music!
I've recently started buying/collecting SACD's, and due to the format, a lot of them out there are jazz and classical. As you know, there's not much available for rock. I'm interested in finding some incredible guitar or singing which feels alive in the room.
Here's what I now own:
1. Ray Charles: Ray sings/Basie Swings
2. The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta
3. Badi Assad Verde
4. Natalie Cole: Ask a Woman Who Knows
5. Dire Straits: Brothers in Arms
I have also purchased several from Amazon which will be delivered to my USA home, and I will pick up in a few months when I head back.
So far, I've been somewhat unimpressed by the rock music -- finding them to be a bit of a disappointment. I purchased Brother's In Arms as my first disk, and find it's decent. I kind of burned myself out on their music when I owned this standard DVD several years ago.
http://www.metrolyrics.com/images/albums/9510direstraits_brothersinarms.jpg
Zenyatta Mondatta is 2 channel, and quite limited by the source material, I'd say. Pretty cool cardboard box picture montage inside, though.
http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00009P57N.03.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
Natalie Cole is probably our favorite disc.
http://image.libro.co.kr/music/f75/f758678314478_1.jpg
I only purchased it because I had seen a news story about her being the daughter of Nat King Cole, and thought she'd have a nice voice on SACD. The disc does sound really nice, although I feel they didn't let her voice air out enough (perhaps compressed at the mic). The instruments are mixed nicely as multi-channel, and the disc is very much an improvement over standard DVD.
My 2nd favorite would be Ray Charles:
http://www.fg-naxos.fi/images/Kevyet%202007/sacd63679_ray_charles.jpg
Although the age of the source material/microphone hinders the ability of this disc. It still sounds very nice, and is mixed well.
The oddball disk I have is one I picked up at a local record shop here in Seoul. It's Badi Assad Verde.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0002VCU1O.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
Her music is very... uh... strange! It was a disappointment in that the instruments sound so lifelike in multi-channel, only to have her goofy voice trounce over the top of them. The instruments are almost alive in the room! Her voice, however, is kind of psychotic and annoying (also in Spanish and French mostly, I think). Her voice was recorded better than ANY of my discs, and I find myself listening to this disc merely because of the way it was recorded. It seemed as if her music, although really odd, was recorded for SACD with mics placed around the room in certain positions next to the instruments -- she's got a weird sound, but it's recorded incredibly. Wow, what a difference that makes compared to the current crop of flat-sounding rock music!