Hello All,
I just thought I would start a best sounding SACD & DVD Audio thread.
I just got a pair of paradigm Studio 20's v5, and have rediscovered my SACD & DVD audio collection!
1.Pat Metheny, Imaginary Day, is an Amazing sounding DVD audio. I didnt relize it for all these years.
2.Roxy Music's Avalon is an Amazing SACD, definately on of the best out there.
3.Allman Bro's Eat A Peach/Fillmore.
Peter Gabriel UP,
4, Elton John's SACD's.

Just a few to start this thread out. What are some of your top 10's?

Mark Knopfler - Shangri-La
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Eagles - Hotel California
Grateful Dead - American Beauty, Workingman's Dead
The Who - Tommy
Beatles - LOVE
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection, Captain Fantastic

Roxy Music's Avalon is an Amazing SACD, definately on of the best out there.

go to track #4 India?? and just listen to the speaker walk around. a good test to hear MCh surround.
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beck - sea change has the best fidelity of any recording i've heard. i have the dvd-a so i can't speak for the sacd.

as mentioned, hotel california is very nice. same with elton john's sacd's.

bonnie raitt - nick of time sounds great. alison krauss and union station - live sounds fantastic...especially for a live album. note: the rear channels are only used for crowd noise.

Here are some related threads (in case anyone's interested):

Top Ten Best Surround/High Rez Releases?
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=723164

If You Could Only Choose 5 - SACD/DVD-A Suggestions
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=841736

Favorite DVD-A's
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=919360

sacd and dvd-a,best of the best?
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1031776

If anyone is into Steely Dan then Donald Fagen's Morph The Cat is mastered very well.

go to track #4 India?? and just listen to the speaker walk around. a good test to hear MCh surround.Funny that you mention this track. This track is actually the only one on the disc that was NOT mixed discretely. They had lost the original masters for this track so the surround mix for this particular track had to be matrixed. Go figure. :)

In addition to what has already been mentioned, some great sounding discs in no particular order:

1. Stupid Dream-Porcupine Tree (DVD-a)
2. Lightbulb Sun-Porcupine Tree (DVD-a)
3. 461 Ocean Boulevard-Eric Clapton (SACD)
4. Machine Head-Deep Purple (SACD)
5. DJ Play My Blues-Buddy Guy (SACD)
6. Black and White Night-Roy Orbison (SACD)
7. What's New-Linda Ronstadt (DVD-a)
8. Blood on the Tracks-Bob Dylan (SACD)
9. The Captain and Me-Doobie Brothers (DVD-a)
10. Enter the Heart-Esteban (DVD-a)