Audiogon "SACD's TO DIE FOR" list

Lately, I've been listening to...

Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
The Kinks - Misfits
Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy

and the RCA Living Stereo SACD's (All of them)

Captain Fantastic is magnificent. Misfits and Oh Mercy aren't reference quality, but very good. But I listen to them more often because the music is superior.

The RCA releases are among the best out there. Don't think that because they're old recordings that they might still sound old. They don't. Whoever made those original recordings were geniuses.

Cheers.

Rebecca Pidgeon. "THE RAVEN". The nuances, detail is unbelievable. Great vocals and songs. Shows what your system is really capable of with a great recording (CHESKY)

Just go the Carpenters GH 1969-1981. What a great job they did!

Miles Davis- Kind of Blue
Alison Kraus and Union Station
Nickle Creek- Nickle Creek
Nickle Creek- This Side
Oh Brother Where Art Thou Sound Track

These are by far my favorite SA-CD's.

Buy the current issue of 'The Absolute Sound'. HP lists his 'Super SACDs' for the 1st time. I had some (and have ordered more) and agree with his assessments.

One I can think of quickly is the Dvorak symphonies #8 and 9, Ivan Fisher and the Budapest Festival O, Philips 470 617-2. Very natural, 1st-row-hall sound and great performances. 5-channel, BTW. Another VERY nice one is the disc of French overtures played by the Detroit SO conducted by Paul Paray, Mercury 470 638-2; 3-channel. This is NOT at all close and harsh sounding as many...no, MOST...Mercury Living Presences are. (HP and I definitely disagree here--he loves the Mercury microphones close and, IMO, producing often-unlistenable-by-me harshness).
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