Diana Krall

Sounds to me like your gonna have to belly up and buy it. This comment is based of course on the fact that your the only one with your ears. Right?

The SACD title should be 'The look of love'. I put it in double quote and it didn't come out in the post.

I seriously doubt that the record company would have re-released a bad recording in SACD format if the master didn't justify the expense or the perceived sales didn't excist.

The SACD is better than the redbook version but not as good as my best SACD's.

Chuck

I have both the redbook and SACD, and the SACD is better in most ways...but this mastering does seem to have concerns.

1. Compared to "Love Scenes" and "All for You", this one is just not to my taste...ie: Krall without strings and with Russell Malone and Christian McBride is more to my taste.

2. There is something wrong with the miking or mixing on Krall's voice on "The Look of Love". Basically on several of the cuts she sounds like she shouts the first word or two at the beginning of each phrase/sentence she sings...maybe her technic is changing(for the worse)...it almost sounds like old style (read: bad) use of DBX!

In the end result I have e-mailled Verve twice requesting that they release "Love Scenes" and "All For You" on SACD, so far they have not been kind enough to reply...which is interesting because I am on there e-mail list..and god knows they send quite a few, but they seem not responsive in emails sent to them?

I do hope SACD continues to improve both from the hardware and software standpoint. Even the most un-godly $ of CD set-ups is still not what analog was(other than signal to noise ratio!). Although it would seem that us "audiophile" consumers are a very, very small % of the market.