Thread: Your Best SA-CD Album to WOW?

Posts: 5

Post by Pianist718 March 12, 2015 (1 of 5)
Sometimes I have friends come by and question what SACD is all about. I find that it's easier to pop a SA-CD into the player and let it WOW.

Curious what your best recording is for those kinds of moments.

I'll start ...


1. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
specifically the track called "Time". Having those clock sound from all 5 speakers ... magic.

2. Foreigner: 4
there is a track #3 called "Break It Up" ... amazing beginning.



what's yours?

Post by Iain March 12, 2015 (2 of 5)
Pianist718 said:

Sometimes I have friends come by and question what SACD is all about. I find that it's easier to pop a SA-CD into the player and let it WOW.

Curious what your best recording is for those kinds of moments.

I'll start ...


1. Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon
specifically the track called "Time". Having those clock sound from all 5 speakers ... magic.

2. Foreigner: 4
there is a track #3 called "Break It Up" ... amazing beginning.



what's yours?

Ravel: Orchestral & virtuoso piano - Larderet

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here

... in that order.

The first title contains the best recordings and performances of specific Piano works of Ravel, I've ever heard. It's my reference for that genre.

The second title speaks for itself, and has consistently done so for the past four years. It's a stunning multi-channel immersion-fest.

My favourite tracks are:
2) Welcome to the Machine
3) Have a Cigar
4) Wish You Were Here

Gapless transition from tracks 3 to 4 is quite well done.

Post by windhoek March 12, 2015 (3 of 5)
I plan to woo a vinyl devotee friend to the dark side of multichannel with tracks 2-4 of Wish You Were Here; nice to see I'm not the only one who rates that passage of music as m/c magnificence :)

Post by al66 March 14, 2015 (4 of 5)
I like
Eliot Fisk plays Bach and Scarlatti Red Rose Music RRM 06

Post by Luke March 16, 2015 (5 of 5)
To be honest, I'm a bit reluctant to show the benefits of MCH what Pop/Rock is concerned. My reason? Well, to mho, there are not enough releases in MCH SACD or BluRay. Most are stereo.
But if I really have to show off, I first play the original RBCD Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms and afterwards the SACD. Must say, the difference is stunning.

What Classical is concerned, I play the following:
C.P.E. Bach - Oboe Concerto's on Caro Mitis, SACD
R. Vaughn Williams - Symphony n°1 on Telarc, SACD
Weill, Ibert, Berg - 3 Concerto's on Sono Luminus, BluRay
Mieczyslaw Weinberg - Concerto's for Cello and for Flute on Chandos, SACD

And if you want a stunning, modern Symphony? Then Kalevi Aho's 12th Symphony is your thing. On BIS, SACD.

Yes, I know, what I listed are 'total immersion' discs. That's where my heart lies.

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