I've had my SACD player less than two weeks. Last week I got a shipment of eight SACDs (in addition to the three I already had.) I was enjoying them, but when I got to Billy Joel's "52nd Street", it seemed to be quite a let down compared to the discs I had played before it, in terms of sound quality.
I have the original LP, the 8 track tape, the first CD, and the 1998 remastered CD (which is quite an improvement over the original CD.) Today I did an A/B comparison of the remastered CD on my old CD player and the SACD stereo mix (level matched as best as I could, etc). I could tell a little difference between the two, and that may be due to different players. (If anything, I thought the remastered CD sounded slightly better than the SACD.)
Can anyone comment on the sound quality of the SACD stereo compared to the remastered CD? Are other Billy Joel albums (The Stranger, Innocent Man) the same way?
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