Best sounding SACD disc?

1) Melissa or Blue Sky or Little Martha from Allman Brother's Eat A Peach.
2) 1B or Benjamin or Hard Times Come Again No More from Yo-Yo Ma's Appalachian Journey.
3) Take Five from Dave Brubeck's Time Out
4) Girl from Ipanema and Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars from Getz/Gilberto with Astrud Gilberto
5) All or Nothing at All or My Love Is from Diana Krall's Love Scenes.
6) Sam Cooke at the Copa especially medley Try a Little Tenderness/You Send Me.
7) Late for Your Life from Mary Chapin Carpenter's Time*Sex*Love.
8) Hazy Jane II from Nick Drake's A Treasury.
9) Cheek to Cheek from Ella and Louis.
10)Here We Go Again from Ray Charles's Genius Loves Company with Nora Jones.
11)Black Crow or Temptation from Diana Krall's Girl in the Other Room.
12)Mozart Clarinet Concerto K622 by Anthony Michaelson.
John Dean

Take a look at the list of top SACD recordings compiled by "The Absolute Sound" magazine - go to this link:

http://www.avguide.com/film_music/music/musicreviews/tas153/153_best_newformat.jsp

There is a list of SACD discs from The Absolute Sound Magazine. My favorite ones are: Patricia Barber, Beck, Coltrane.

The Elton John discs are the best I've heard in pop music. In classical, the RCA Living Stereo series is great, although some of the recordings do show their age a little bit. Try the Mahler 4th or Petroushka by Stravinsky. Pentatone and Telarc also make excellent SACDs.

Cheers

Quite often I use the "4 Generations of Miles" disk to demo to my friends. Even the ones that aren't jazz fans can appreciate the sound and music.

Santana ABRAXSAS. An oldee made better. It'll blow them away!!!!! If your looking for something more suttle try The Dave Brubeck Quartet / Time Out or John Pizzarelli / My Blue Heaven.

John Lord/Beyond the Notes is beautiful if you like classical with a little jazz thrown in. It also has a cut with Frida from Abba on vocals. It's a little hard to find but worth it. The DVD is great too and is also hard to find and only available as a PAL disc.

If you like Jazz, Patricia Barber SACD's are great recordings. I own them all.

FWIW I use Elton John Goobye Yellowbrick Road on SACD for a demo alot..... The SACD is a huge step up from the original recording.

Try something from OPUS-3 records. Very dedicated recordings. Some say even the best.

Regards,
Mike

'The Film Misic of Jerry Goldsmith', Telarc SACD-60433. Goldsmith conducts the LSO in lots of his film GREAT music. This a spectacularly NATURAL-sounding recording, done in EMI's large Abbey Rd. studio. BIG bassdrums, GLORIOUS horns, big orchestra. Five channels. Stereo too, but I haven't heard that.
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