Matthew Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 In celebration of my purchase of a Denon universal cd player, I'm going on a spending spree -- what are the SACD's that I absolutely, positively, have to get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 Some great sounding jazz SACDs which are really worth getting even if you already have good sounding CD versions: - Art Pepper: Modern Jazz Classics - Bill Evans Trio: Sunday At The Village Vanguard - Bill Evans Trio: Waltz For Debby - Bob Belden: Black Dahlia - Cannonball Adderley Quintet: In San Francisco - Eric Dolphy: Out There - Gil Evans: Gil Evans & Ten (first stereo release) - Joe Henderson: Lush Life (remastering has improved the 16bit digital recording) - John Coltrane: Standard Coltrane - John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman (has the mono recordings as bonus) - Miles Davis: Big Fun (much better than CD box set) - Miles Davis: In A Silent Way (multichannel layer) - Miles Davis: Kind of Blue - Sonny Clark Trio - Sky Garden: Yo Miles! - Sonny Rollins: Way Out West There are many other good sounding SACDs, but some don't sound much superior to the remastered CD versions, that's why I did not list them. Here's my complete SACD list: http://www.sa-cd.net/recommendations/725 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 Louis Armstrong plays W. C. Handy My favorite SACD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibes Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 Beck - Sea Change Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon most of the RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence titles Bill Evans - Moonbeams Herbie Hancock - Headhunters Miles Davis - In a Silent Way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Posted November 3, 2005 Report Share Posted November 3, 2005 I would add Live Evil by Miles. Wicked Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted November 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Thanks for the suggestions -- I was looking through the internet the the RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence box, I can't find it; is it already OOP? I know the Bob Dylan cd/sacd box is now OOP, which is why I got it now instead of later when I would be paying an arm & leg for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibes Posted November 4, 2005 Report Share Posted November 4, 2005 Thanks for the suggestions -- I was looking through the internet the the RCA Living Stereo and Mercury Living Presence box, I can't find it; is it already OOP? I know the Bob Dylan cd/sacd box is now OOP, which is why I got it now instead of later when I would be paying an arm & leg for it. ← I don't know of any RLS or MLP SACD boxes. There are only individual titles, as far as I know. You should be able to find them easily at Acoustic Sounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LWayne Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 (edited) Allow me to suggest one more title: "Griot Liberte" by Buster Williams on High Note. Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, this SACD Hybrid has great sound. It is my favorite high fidelity recording LWayne Edited November 6, 2005 by LWayne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 I think both the Living Stereo and the Living Presence SACDs were offered in a package deal at first. . . . That may still be true at some audiophile recording sites. Also there are five or six Living Stereo SACDs available at yourmusic.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted November 6, 2005 Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 yourmusic.com also has the Dylan SACD box still offered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 (edited) As someone who recently acquired an SACD/DVD-A machine who has also been recently listening to a lot more classical music, if anyone, especially a certain somebody who also posts to SA-CD.net cares to share an opinion concerning classical releases...though all are welcome to do so! I've gone from 4 SACD hybrids to 35 in a couple of weeks, but would love to hear about some favorite classical releases that combine the magic of great performance & recording on SACD. And not just the wonderful Living Stereo series (which has replaced RVG in my heart) but modern recommendations welcome too. Edited July 3, 2007 by Quincy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Hi Quincy, I guess that certain somebody must be me I've quite a large collection of SACDs, and I can recommend almost all of them http://www.sa-cd.net/library/725 Besides the Living Stereo and Mercury series, my favourite classical SACD labels are Pentatone and Telarc. The recording quality is flawless. Here are some of my favourites: Russian Violin Concertos - Fischer/Kreizberg Franck: Symphony in D minor, Chausson: Symphony in B flat - Janowski Wagner: Overtures & Preludes - Varviso/Schumacher (from Pentatone's "Remastered Quadro Recording" series) Vaughan Williams: Sea Symphony - Atlanta Symphony/Spano Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice etc. - Cincinnati/Lopez-Cobos And from other labels: Shostakovich/Shchedrin: Piano Concertos - Marc-André Hamelin Bartok: The Wooden Prince, Kossuth - Kocsis Benjamin Britten: Les Illuminations - Scottish Ensemble The inevitable Mahler: Mahler: Symphony No. 6, Henze: Sebastian im Traum - Jansons All of the Jordi Savall SACDs are worth getting, if you like medevial music: Carlos V: Mille Regretz, La Cancion del Emperador - Hesperion XXI/Savall La Folia - Hesperion XXI/Savall Another of my historical instruments favourites: Rameau: Une symphonie imaginaire - Minkowski Some more unusual repertoire: Karl Amadeus Hartmann: Sinfonia Tragica, Concerto for Viola and Piano Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky (complete) - Frank Strobel The best sounding solo piano recording: Volodos Plays Liszt The prices of many SACDs is quite steep (over $20 or even $25). For the past year, I've been buying almost exclusively from Caiman or DVDlegacy, through the amazon(.fr) Marketplace. Prices including shipping are usually 30% lower than the regular price, and the discs are shipped individually. When clicking a link on SA-CD.net and ordering a disc, that site will benefit from the seller's affiliate program. If you want Orgasnissimo to benefit from your purchases, go to the store by using the search box on this page (no need to fill in a search term), and then only click the direct link provided by SA-CD.net. Of course both sites deserve support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazz1 Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Another stunning sounding SACD Les violons du Roy "Piazolla" maybe my best out of 50 or so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aggie87 Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Matthew - if you like the Rolling Stones, you might want to start nabbing the ABKCO SACD hybrids that are out there. They're the ones from 2002, in the digipaks. They are out of print now, and getting more difficult to find. The ABKCO titles have since been reissued in jewel cases, and advertise that they're DSD remastered, but they're not hybrid SACD's. Also, since your player is universal, I'd recommend you pick up the Porcupine Tree stuff that's out there, if you don't already have it. Stupid Dream, In Absentia, Deadwing, and the upcoming Fear of a Blank Planet DVD-A's. And the Lightbulb Sun DVD-A is due out sometime in the next 12 months too still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted July 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Matthew - if you like the Rolling Stones, you might want to start nabbing the ABKCO SACD hybrids that are out there. They're the ones from 2002, in the digipaks. They are out of print now, and getting more difficult to find. The ABKCO titles have since been reissued in jewel cases, and advertise that they're DSD remastered, but they're not hybrid SACD's. Also, since your player is universal, I'd recommend you pick up the Porcupine Tree stuff that's out there, if you don't already have it. Stupid Dream, In Absentia, Deadwing, and the upcoming Fear of a Blank Planet DVD-A's. And the Lightbulb Sun DVD-A is due out sometime in the next 12 months too still. I did get all the Stones sacds, especially when I heard they were going OOP. I thinks they sound great, despite what some say on that "audiophile" forum. I have a couple of the PT DVD-A's, but my problem is that my universal defaults to multi-channel, and I can't figure out how to get just the PCM stereo. Oh well, the regular cds sound fine.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quincy Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 When clicking a link on SA-CD.net and ordering a disc, that site will benefit from the seller's affiliate program. If you want Orgasnissimo to benefit from your purchases, go to the store by using the search box on this page (no need to fill in a search term), and then only click the direct link provided by SA-CD.net. Of course both sites deserve support. Thanks Claude! I put in an order of a dozen discs when organissimo was down, so SA-CD.net got my support (and it was very easy as I was using my wish list.) The Fischer/Kreizberg Russian Violin Concertos really is terrific as advertised! I'm making an effort to go outside of the bounds of the Living Stereo series (in other words, spending more money as those are too hard to resist because of performance & price!), so I especially appreciate the recommendations outside of that series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 Claude, I saw from your list that you already have the Milt Jackson Invitation SACD - does that sound better than the OJC CD? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted July 3, 2007 Report Share Posted July 3, 2007 (edited) Here's my SACD library - not as many, but I can recommend all the jazz titles, sound-wise. I would consider the Gil Evans Prestige as absolutely essential. Edited July 3, 2007 by mikeweil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Claude Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 Claude, I saw from your list that you already have the Milt Jackson Invitation SACD - does that sound better than the OJC CD? Sorry Mike, I don't have it yet. I've ordered it from Amazon France a week ago (17 euro only!) and immediately moved it from my SA-CD.net wishlist to my library. Amazon says it will be sent in a week. I'll post a review on sa-cd.net. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 yourmusic.com also has the Dylan SACD box still offered. Anyone hear these? How are they? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted July 4, 2007 Report Share Posted July 4, 2007 Definitely an improvement over earlier cds. . . . Not going to make you toss your lps out the window, but who would? Possibly a bit bright in some instances but in general thiese are really good discs to have. I only wish they had done a few other titles (New Morning, Self Portrait). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted July 5, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 In celebration of my purchase of a Denon universal cd player, I'm going on a spending spree -- what are the SACD's that I absolutely, positively, have to get? The Genesis SACD/DVD-A 'Trick of the Tail' mini-lp box that's due out in a few weeks? http://diskunion.net/search_result.php?typ...amp;all_genre=1 Already have the SACD Genesis box, and I happen to like the sound very much, you'll like the sound on TOTT . If anyone likes small group swing, Jazz at the Pawnshop is an amazing sacd to have; sound is the best I've heard, and the music is very nice also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibes Posted July 5, 2007 Report Share Posted July 5, 2007 Claude, I saw from your list that you already have the Milt Jackson Invitation SACD - does that sound better than the OJC CD? Sorry Mike, I don't have it yet. I've ordered it from Amazon France a week ago (17 euro only!) and immediately moved it from my SA-CD.net wishlist to my library. Amazon says it will be sent in a week. I'll post a review on sa-cd.net. I don't recall what the OJC sounds like, but I do have this SACD and think it sounds wonderful. I've played it at least once a day since I got it a few weeks ago. Highly recommended music with a nice late-night vibe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son-of-a-Weizen Posted February 21, 2008 Report Share Posted February 21, 2008 Another stunning sounding SACD ....and yet another Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
six string Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 (edited) I don't have a lot of SACDs but here are a few I can highly recomend for sound and content. On the Wings of an Eagle - John Hicks, Buster Williams, Louis Hayes (Chesky) Hybrid Sonny Clark Trio - (Audio Fidelity) Hybrid Round About Midnight - Miles (Sony) Folk Singer - Muddy Waters (Chess/UMG) edited to add another. Hank Jones - West of 5th w/Christian McBride and Jimmy Cobb (Chesky) Hybrid The usual high standards of Hank comes through. It's all standards except one tune by Jimmy Cobb. Edited March 5, 2008 by six string Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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