You get to pick five SACDs to show off the potential of the format....

....Whether recorded to DSD, remastered from analogue, pop/jazz/classical/world, whathaveyou.

And they are?

 

Miles Davis: In a Silent Way (MFSL)
Jordi Savall: La Folia
Can: Tago Mago
Bob Dylan: Freewheelin' (MFSL or Sony)
Pixies: Doolittle (MFSL)

That about covers it for different sounds/genres.

 

Crap! I've got three of your five!

I go back and forth on whether SACD is strongest in conveying/replicating the analogue experience, e.g. the Miles title, or in direct-to-DSD recordings.

 

Both.

And I can guess which three you have: Dylan, Pixies, Miles. Right?

 

Dylan (Sony), Savall, Miles.

 

The Decca Solti Ring Cycle on either Esoteric SACD or Decca Blu-Ray. Also, the Reiner Scheherazade on RCA Red Seal.

 

Interesting to get a vote for an Esoteric release. That reissue shop seems to have a mixed reputation, but it's put out a lot of great analogue-era albums.

That's a great Reiner record and a great job of SACD transfer by Boston's own Soundmirror.

 

Beck's Sea Change
Jennifer Warnes' The Well
Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here
Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells (SHM-SACD)
Nat King Cole's The Nat King Cole Story

I could pick a bunch of DSD-recorded Classical SACDs, but honestly the number of people even aware of them would be miniscule.

 

That's true, alas...

Is that Nat release the best of the NKC SACD lot?

 

I would add to this Ivan Fischer's rendition, with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, of Dvorak's 9th and 8th symphonies, on the Channel Classics label. Available here. Originally recorded in multi-channel, the sound is jaw-dropping and lifelike. Reiner's interpretation of Dvorak's 9th with the CSO (RCA/BMG) is a legendary recording too, and the sound is remarkably good for such an old recording, but it is a two- and three-channel SACD that may not be the best for "showing off" the full surround capability of the SACD format, as the regular CD sounds good too.

 

That is a more subjective decision, though I think the Nat King Cole Story has the best mix of popular hits everyone would immediately know.

 

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
Peter Gabriel - So/Last Temptation Of Christ Soundtrack
Dinah Washington - What A Diff'rnce A Day Makes
Yes - Close To The Edge
Steely Dan - Gaucho SHM-SACD

Damn - Only five?!?! I didn't even get into most of the Jazz or any of the classical. Forget it, you can't just do five - come back when you have more time for a longer session

ccm

 

Rolling Stones-Black and Blue shm sacd
Donald Fagen-The Nightfly sacd
Black Sabbath-First Album shm sacd
Billy Joel-The Stranger stereo/multi sacd(1st issue)
Creedence Clearwater Revival-Cosmos Factory sacd

 

Wish You Were Here
Keb Mo s/t
Blues in Orbit
Dark Side of the Moon
Alison Krauss/Union Station Live

 

http://www.sa-cd.net/library/8577/1

 

Beck - Sea Change
Roxy Music - Avalon
Alison Krauss - New Favorite or Forget About It
Jennifer Warnes - The Well
Keb' Mo' - Just Like You
Patricia Barber - Cafe' Blue

Bill

 

Special Mention: Blues and the Abstract Truth by Oliver Nelson

 

Lee,

This is definitely a very good choice as well .

Bill

 

A great reissue, a standout even in that excellent Impulse series from APO.

 

Liszt - Transcendental Etudes - Claudio Arrau
Bartok - Concerto for Orchestra - Reiner CSO
Miles Davis - Big Fun
Mahler 2 - Klemperer/Philharmonia
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

 

From Bartok to Big Fun... Not bad.

The Arrau recording is undervalued, I think-- that Philips quad sound is great in SACD format.

 

Excellent recording of the Brahms Piano Quartets with the Beaux Arts Trio on Phillips also. Definitely
agree about the quad sound.

 

Wish you were here
Dark Side of the moon
Fragile
Hotel California
Rumours

all mc

 

Looks like you need to rename yourself "themultichannelfan"

ccm

 

Some that I think sound good and more importantly contain swell music...

Babatunde Olatunji - Circle Of Drums
Pixies - Doolittle
Miles Davis - In A Silent Way
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
Can - Future Days or Roxy Music - Avalon