What’s the best SACD you’ve ever heard?

I don’t have one yet as I’ve just got everything working correctly here, but I’d be very interested in hearing about your favorites.

Thanks.

JD

curiousjim05-17-2019 5:01pm

hifiman5 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,832 posts 05-17-2019 at 05:18pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Rock - Pink Floyd: "Wish You Were Here" Just one huge beautifully focused "ball of sound" around the front of the listening room. +10 for clarity! Jazz - Clark Terry "Portraits" - It may be the best Chesky release of all time! Great tuneful jazz by guys who are in the groove. "Literally" wall to wall sound precisely imaged. As with Pink, +10 for clarity.
hifiman5 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,832 posts 05-17-2019 at 10:20pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete +1 @stereo5 I should have mentioned "Amused To Death"! No other recording that I have heard in stereo has sound that wraps around to the right and left of my listening position like that recording. Besides that remarkable effect, it is a great (prescient?) recording about the current state of entertainment culture. Fantastic sound quality with interesting instrumentation and arrangements of songs.
hifiman5 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 1,832 posts 05-18-2019 at 10:08pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete @curiousjim I have never heard the CD of "Amused To Death" so I can't say how much better the SACD might sound but the SACD is a large format box like "Wish You Were Here". Go for the Clark Terry "Portraits" SACD. People will, hell you may even drool over the wonder of music engineered so beautifully.