Post by Goodwood April 2, 2008 (11 of 36)
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Actually if I'd been thinking more quickly yesterday it would have been:
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Beatles - St Pepper
Beatles - Abbey Road
ELP - Tarkus
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - II
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Hendrix - Elctric Ladyland
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Post by raffells April 2, 2008 (12 of 36)
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Goodwood said:
Actually if I'd been thinking more quickly yesterday it would have been:
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Beatles - St Pepper
Beatles - Abbey Road
ELP - Tarkus
Led Zeppelin - I
Led Zeppelin - II
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Hendrix - Elctric Ladyland
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Some interesting SACDS on this list..exactly where did you get them from China?
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Post by Beagle April 2, 2008 (13 of 36)
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Post by Geir April 7, 2008 (14 of 36)
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Boccherini: "Fandango" quintet etc. (never heard such detailed guitar sound in a chamber music setting before and still it's a natural part of the ensemble, not at all close miked and "lifted out")
David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust (good songs all of them and a few really outstanding ones like Starman, Moonage daydream, Rock'n'roll suicide, sounds excellent too, just make sure to play loud enough if you listen in mch)
Seascapes (Debussy: La mer etc.) (outstanding playing by Singapore SO, and this music is just made for mch hirez with all the orchestral colours and huge dynamics)
Jorma Kaukonen: Blue country heart
Turina: Sinfonia Sevillana, op. 23 etc.
Miles Davis: Kind of blue
Pink Floyd: Dark side
Baltic voices 2 (especially Oremus by Urmas Sisask)
Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard
Uljas Pulkkis: Enchanted garden
I would have included a couple of titles from the Water Lily label, except that they lack the extra dimension of mch.
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Post by dbmay75 April 7, 2008 (15 of 36)
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Wow, thanks for all of your posts everyone, I'm learning a lot, particularly in regards to the best classical titles to purchase! Debussy has always been my favorite composer and I was told about "SeaScapes" sometime ago and have that on my wish list (I just have too many pop/rock titles to collect first!)
For the classical SACD collectors reading this, are you finding certain titles going out of print quickly like the pop/rock titles do, or are the first produced titles still widely available for purchase?
Also, does anyone know the first SACD ever made as well as when the 10 year anniversary of SACD is/was?
Cheers,
Dan
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Post by soundboy April 7, 2008 (16 of 36)
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dbmay75 said:
Also, does anyone know the first SACD ever made as well as when the 10 year anniversary of SACD is/was?
I like to know too
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Post by k-spin April 7, 2008 (17 of 36)
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dbmay75 said:
Also, does anyone know the first SACD ever made as well as when the 10 year anniversary of SACD is/was?
Cheers,
Dan
Hi Dan,
According to Wikipedia, SA-CD was launched in 1999. It does not mention what the first release was.
Cheers,
K
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Post by wehecht April 8, 2008 (18 of 36)
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dbmay75 said:
For the classical SACD collectors reading this, are you finding certain titles going out of print quickly like the pop/rock titles do, or are the first produced titles still widely available for purchase?
Also, does anyone know the first SACD ever made as well as when the 10 year anniversary of SACD is/was?
Cheers,
Dan
Most of the early classical titles are still available on line, but many desirable new titles seem to go from "pre-order" to "backordered" with amazing rapidity, and some backorders take forever to fill.
Some Sony re-issues aside I believe the first classical SACD released in the US was Telarc's second Cincinnati/Kunzel recording of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, etc., more or less simultaneously issued in DVD-A.
Bill
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Post by eesau April 9, 2008 (19 of 36)
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dbmay75 said:
Hi everyone,
We haven't done one of these in a while and I think this is helpful to some who might be on the fence as to whether or not to buy certain titles, skeptical perhaps if the final product is good enough to invest in a copy of their own.
Any SACD is allowed whether it's classical or rock, hybrid or single layer. Naturally, do not cast your votes simply on the popularity of the music, but on the quality of the sound and production, even if it's the packaging or the RBCD layer of a Hybrid that impresses you. Comments and track highlights are encouraged and welcomed, but please don't turn it into a thesis.
And yes, I know those of you who own 400+ SACD's will have a tough time narrowing down to 10 choices, but that's the fun of it! It makes you think a little!
Cheers,
Dan
Damn it! I am unable to pick 10, as I only own 9. Does that disqualify me?
Anyway, here are my favourite 9 - Yes, all of them! If I had to pick my least favourite from that lot, it’d be the Little Richard disc. It’s definitely not bad though – far from it.
Just doesn’t shine so brightly as the others - perhaps because of it’s age/genre, and that it’s mono.
The Carpenters “Singles 1969 – 1981” - Hybrid MCH/2CH – 1 Disc
Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” - Hybrid MCH/2CH – 1 Disc
Dire Straits “Brothers in Arms” Hybrid - MCH/2CH – 1 Disc
Kraftwerk “Minimum:Maximum Live” - Hybrid MCH/2CH – 2 Discs
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Time Out” - Non-Hybrid MCH/2CH – 1 Disc
LSO “Ma Vlast” Dvorak - Hybrid MCH/2CH – 1 Disc
Little Richard “Here’s Little Richard” Hybrid Mono – 1 Disc
Kitaro “Kojiki” Hybrid 2CH – 1 Disc
Kitaro “Live in Yakushiji“ Hybrid MCH/2CH – 2 Discs
I’ve only been able to play SACDs for not quite a year and a half now, so that’s my excuse for not having many. On the hi-res “next to buy” shortlist are:-
Kitaro “Sacred Journey of Ku-Kai”
Shostakovich “Jazz Suites”
It’s funny really, because the discs don’t really cost that much. Perhaps better expressed, they offer extremely good entertainment value. There’s never a shortage of new music for me to buy, but it does cost a lot to keep my Arcam DV137 fed!
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