SHM Universal Japan SACDs

I just ordered Yellow Brick Road and Who's Next. Will let everyone know if they're worthwhile.

Mjcovher,
Source material is always key, isn't it? I've always assumed Cream's Wheels of Fire was recorded poorly in the studio and live so there will never be a good copy of it. (Judging by my cassette copy anyway - it's bad even for a cassette.)
So is Wheels of Fire on SACD good? I wouldn't expect it to sound any better than the CD if the source is compromised by age and lack of quality.

I listened to the Who's Next SHM-SACD today. I wish I could say I was impressed, but I'd swear my CD version sounds better. It's too bad; I had high hopes for the SACD. I compared it with the CD on two different players and even with the Classic Records LP. There was no clear winner in terms of sound quality alone. The CD might have been the most enjoyable. Considering price and convenience then, the CD is the best bet.
Perhaps it's the source material.
Hopefully Yellow Brick Road will be better (it was backordered at musicdirect). If not, I'm through with SACD.

Thanks for the tips, MikeC. I look forward to listening to Yellow Brick Road. I'm not optimistic though. As I've mentioned in other posts, SACD just never seems to work well in my system. DVD-A works wonderfully. (You mentioned Gaucho, that's probably the best DVD-A I have.)
I wonder if it's possible, as it seems to me, that your system somehow favors SACD more than mine? I have a pretty good setup I think, but SACD usually disappoints. Maybe it's my player. The NAD M5 is a great CD player, but maybe its SACD circuit is subpar. The mitigating factor is I also have a Denon 2910 in the same system that displays the same bias. So a common factor is my cables and amp. But surely my cables and integrated amp don't favor one high rez format over another!
Which leads me to believe it's just my ears. Maybe they respond better to something in DVD-A than whatever they hear in SACD.
Anyway I'll give Yellow Brick a fair shot when it gets here.

Elton John's Yellow Brick Road SHM SACD finally arrived. I don't have another format to compare it with, but it does sound good. I should be able to compare it with the his Greatest Hits CD this weekend; some of the songs are common to both discs.