I have yet to find one that really stands out. What would you pick if you could only decide on one album? I’ve heard the Brothers in Arms SACD is a must own
I have yet to find one that really stands out. What would you pick if you could only decide on one album? I’ve heard the Brothers in Arms SACD is a must own
SACDs are technically better than red books but with a good recording I hear little difference. I have a fairly transparent system. I recently purchased DGs Beethoven new complete set, many of the recordings are out of this world, I own SACDs of some of the identical albums, my wife and I A/B tested and we picked the red books more than the SACDs. Now take multi channel (which I have a system for and enjoy) and it’s an entirely different conversation.
That’s interesting…I guess better mastering could be a factor or perhaps better DA converting for red book. Are the SACD’s DSD? I find SACD that are still based on pcm mastering inferior to dsd mastering:
“DSD uses delta-sigma modulation a form of pulse-density modulation encoding, a technique to represent audio signals in digital format, a sequence of single-bit values at a sampling rate of 2.8224 MHz. This is 64 times the CD audio sampling rate of 44.1 kHz, but with 1-bit samples instead of 16-bit samples.”
…that’s a big difference…