I'm looking for SACD sources...help please!
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The Police, Every Breath You Take is a masterfully done rock album that comes through very well on SACD.
Isn't it a bit of both? I have music that I like but the recording quality is so poor that it takes away from the listening enjoyment. Traffic is one of my favorites but go try and find a quality recording anywhere. The first Moody Blues album is one of my favorites too but the sound quality is almost unlistenable, unless you consider very obvious distortion part of the experience.
Isn't it a bit of both? I have music that I like but the recording quality is so poor that it takes away from the listening enjoyment. Traffic is one of my favorites but go try and find a quality recording anywhere. The first Moody Blues album is one of my favorites too but the sound quality is almost unlistenable, unless you consider very obvious distortion part of the experience.
The rock genre is poorly served by SACD. If your taste in music is limited to the usual suspects - Stones, Clapton, Dylan, Floyd etc then you will be fine.
If not, you are going to be bitterly disappointed with what else is available.
My comments were directed at the notion of asking for recommendations of an album based on the sound quality as opposed to the musical merit.
If not, you are going to be bitterly disappointed with what else is available.
My comments were directed at the notion of asking for recommendations of an album based on the sound quality as opposed to the musical merit.
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SACD and vinyl are very close so vinyl definitely equals a good analog format. Unlike Redbook CD which unfortunately degraded the music.
The sad part about much of the available vinyl is that it got mistreated and has a lot of surface noise as a result or was not originally mastered for vinyl as well as the current SACD remasters of the original tapes are. There are exceptions to this of course and those are very good.
The sad part about much of the available vinyl is that it got mistreated and has a lot of surface noise as a result or was not originally mastered for vinyl as well as the current SACD remasters of the original tapes are. There are exceptions to this of course and those are very good.
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I'm not looking for anything on SACD as the format does not interest me.
Then perhaps I am looking for opinions from people whom the format DOES interest? Because I need helpful feedback on providing my father with something better than what he has? And SACD has been accepted as the best solution for hi-fi recording to date. Even though the music selection may be lack-luster? We have to TRY? He is not limited to just rock. It was but one example.
My father has records, but does not play them. He likes to sit across the room and change the CD player with the remote while drinking his beers. Lights dimmed, mellowed out and enjoying his music. He has NO interest in getting up to change records all the time. And the scratchy records don't make him all warm and fuzzy inside. To him it's noise. His personal experience with the best fidelity SO FAR seems to have been better served with the CD format. Again, something he can enjoy remotely.
His bitch is when the kids come over and want to try to impress him with all the oldies music they can get for him with their ipads and iphones. They hook up these digital devices to his pre-amp and he complains because while the music selection may be better; he cannot stand the terrible fidelity. So he leaves.
My intent here is to push the boundary further, for his birthday or fathers day, by giving him a gift of something BETTER. Thereby exploring the hi-fi format of SACD. Because that was the only surviving two-channel audio hi-fi format. Now his tastes are not rooted in rock music alone, but oldies. The temptations, Patsy Kline, ........ I dunno? Stuff my mother likes? They listen to that stuff all the time, but I am not there so I have no big fat list to throw at you so you may critique it? I just know that he is using an audio research preamp and Bozak Concert grands. Fidelity is important to him, and it'd be a nice gesture of mine, to provide him with SOMETHING better than today's super/hyper compressed cell phone distorted music and compressed satellite radio music. There's gotta be SOMETHING? Something that surpassed the CD? That brings out the best in music?
(And if Lee saw this he'd say; "your solution is a WOAPL 700B.") Yes, yes......we've been down that road before. The amplifier hardware is at it's peak with him right now I'm afraid. Money to do a conversion does not have his go ahead yet. But it's a great idea!
This said; Joe.....would you then agree the hi-fi format is worth exploring and NOT a waste of my time? Just throwing it out there.
Then perhaps I am looking for opinions from people whom the format DOES interest? Because I need helpful feedback on providing my father with something better than what he has? And SACD has been accepted as the best solution for hi-fi recording to date. Even though the music selection may be lack-luster? We have to TRY? He is not limited to just rock. It was but one example.
My father has records, but does not play them. He likes to sit across the room and change the CD player with the remote while drinking his beers. Lights dimmed, mellowed out and enjoying his music. He has NO interest in getting up to change records all the time. And the scratchy records don't make him all warm and fuzzy inside. To him it's noise. His personal experience with the best fidelity SO FAR seems to have been better served with the CD format. Again, something he can enjoy remotely.
His bitch is when the kids come over and want to try to impress him with all the oldies music they can get for him with their ipads and iphones. They hook up these digital devices to his pre-amp and he complains because while the music selection may be better; he cannot stand the terrible fidelity. So he leaves.
My intent here is to push the boundary further, for his birthday or fathers day, by giving him a gift of something BETTER. Thereby exploring the hi-fi format of SACD. Because that was the only surviving two-channel audio hi-fi format. Now his tastes are not rooted in rock music alone, but oldies. The temptations, Patsy Kline, ........ I dunno? Stuff my mother likes? They listen to that stuff all the time, but I am not there so I have no big fat list to throw at you so you may critique it? I just know that he is using an audio research preamp and Bozak Concert grands. Fidelity is important to him, and it'd be a nice gesture of mine, to provide him with SOMETHING better than today's super/hyper compressed cell phone distorted music and compressed satellite radio music. There's gotta be SOMETHING? Something that surpassed the CD? That brings out the best in music?
(And if Lee saw this he'd say; "your solution is a WOAPL 700B.") Yes, yes......we've been down that road before. The amplifier hardware is at it's peak with him right now I'm afraid. Money to do a conversion does not have his go ahead yet. But it's a great idea!
This said; Joe.....would you then agree the hi-fi format is worth exploring and NOT a waste of my time? Just throwing it out there.
I'm not looking for anything on SACD as the format does not interest me.
Then perhaps I am looking for opinions from people whom the format DOES interest? Because I need helpful feedback on providing my father with something better than what he has? And SACD has been accepted as the best solution for hi-fi recording to date. Even though the music selection may be lack-luster? We have to TRY? He is not limited to just rock. It was but one example.
My father has records, but does not play them. He likes to sit across the room and change the CD player with the remote while drinking his beers. Lights dimmed, mellowed out and enjoying his music. He has NO interest in getting up to change records all the time. And the scratchy records don't make him all warm and fuzzy inside. To him it's noise. His personal experience with the best fidelity SO FAR seems to have been better served with the CD format. Again, something he can enjoy remotely.
His bitch is when the kids come over and want to try to impress him with all the oldies music they can get for him with their ipads and iphones. They hook up these digital devices to his pre-amp and he complains because while the music selection may be better; he cannot stand the terrible fidelity. So he leaves.
My intent here is to push the boundary further, for his birthday or fathers day, by giving him a gift of something BETTER. Thereby exploring the hi-fi format of SACD. Because that was the only surviving two-channel audio hi-fi format. Now his tastes are not rooted in rock music alone, but oldies. The temptations, Patsy Kline, ........ I dunno? Stuff my mother likes? They listen to that stuff all the time, but I am not there so I have no big fat list to throw at you so you may critique it? I just know that he is using an audio research preamp and Bozak Concert grands. Fidelity is important to him, and it'd be a nice gesture of mine, to provide him with SOMETHING better than today's super/hyper compressed cell phone distorted music and compressed satellite radio music. There's gotta be SOMETHING? Something that surpassed the CD? That brings out the best in music?
(And if Lee saw this he'd say; "your solution is a WOAPL 700B.") Yes, yes......we've been down that road before. The amplifier hardware is at it's peak with him right now I'm afraid. Money to do a conversion does not have his go ahead yet. But it's a great idea!
This said; Joe.....would you then agree the hi-fi format is worth exploring and NOT a waste of my time? Just throwing it out there.
Then perhaps I am looking for opinions from people whom the format DOES interest? Because I need helpful feedback on providing my father with something better than what he has? And SACD has been accepted as the best solution for hi-fi recording to date. Even though the music selection may be lack-luster? We have to TRY? He is not limited to just rock. It was but one example.
My father has records, but does not play them. He likes to sit across the room and change the CD player with the remote while drinking his beers. Lights dimmed, mellowed out and enjoying his music. He has NO interest in getting up to change records all the time. And the scratchy records don't make him all warm and fuzzy inside. To him it's noise. His personal experience with the best fidelity SO FAR seems to have been better served with the CD format. Again, something he can enjoy remotely.
His bitch is when the kids come over and want to try to impress him with all the oldies music they can get for him with their ipads and iphones. They hook up these digital devices to his pre-amp and he complains because while the music selection may be better; he cannot stand the terrible fidelity. So he leaves.
My intent here is to push the boundary further, for his birthday or fathers day, by giving him a gift of something BETTER. Thereby exploring the hi-fi format of SACD. Because that was the only surviving two-channel audio hi-fi format. Now his tastes are not rooted in rock music alone, but oldies. The temptations, Patsy Kline, ........ I dunno? Stuff my mother likes? They listen to that stuff all the time, but I am not there so I have no big fat list to throw at you so you may critique it? I just know that he is using an audio research preamp and Bozak Concert grands. Fidelity is important to him, and it'd be a nice gesture of mine, to provide him with SOMETHING better than today's super/hyper compressed cell phone distorted music and compressed satellite radio music. There's gotta be SOMETHING? Something that surpassed the CD? That brings out the best in music?
(And if Lee saw this he'd say; "your solution is a WOAPL 700B.") Yes, yes......we've been down that road before. The amplifier hardware is at it's peak with him right now I'm afraid. Money to do a conversion does not have his go ahead yet. But it's a great idea!
This said; Joe.....would you then agree the hi-fi format is worth exploring and NOT a waste of my time? Just throwing it out there.
There are a ton of SACD titles out there. Not sure of the Patsy Cline (she is great) but I have some very nice Alison Krauss bluegrass on SACD (kicking myself for failing to get her entire collection on SACD, they are OOP and go for $300+ per copy lately)
