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While I've not had much time lately for recreational listening (i.e. listening to entire albums without doing anything else), when I did have time, this was a frequent choice on my DVD-A pile (bought it when it came out).

Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!; Like Someone in Love; Soundtrack of Let No Man Write My Epitaph--all by Ella Fitzgerald, all Analogue Productions SACDs. Was sufficiently impressed by their release of Ray Charles and Betty Carter that I plunked down a heftier sum than I would usually for single...

Just got Close to the Edge (Blu-ray + CD) and Breakfast in America on Blu-ray. Have only had time to sample Breakfast--seems to be lacking the overly compressed sound of recent re-releases of other material from that period (on hi-res or otherwise). Hoping to have a bit of free time next week to...

The HD DVD is quite good (I've had it for years). I did, however, pay a touch less than what your link offers. Perhaps it's time to ebay my copy? :laugh:

I have a Sony SD CRT 32" in my living room with the 16x9 "cheat" and it looks quite good (black levels are outstanding--better than anything else in my house). It will be in the living room until it dies (going strong after 12 years). I watch BD, HD DVD and DVDs on it with a stereo rig. An...

I tried every format on the Pet Sounds DVD-A and (no surprise--to me at any rate) the MCH mix is my favourite by a country mile. Sitting in the middle of the harmonies coming from all directions is great. Each vocal part comes out with greater clarity. I have some MCH SACD/DVD-A discs that I...

I wonder how it compares to the DVD-A on my shelf. Of course, I very much like the MCH mix on the DVD-A, so the SACD was never really in the cards for me.

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (SACD stereo/mono) and Beach Boys' Pet Sounds (DVD-A MCH). Haven't had time to listen through them yet but will do so soon.

Relaxin' by Miles Davis--it will be a stocking stuffer, so I haven't heard it yet, but hey, with Miles and Coltrane, how can I go wrong?

Just ordered WYWH on SACD. Will likely pick up the Rush DVD-As next.

I have the 70-75 and 76-82 SACD sets and the 83-98 DVD set (got that one for 15$ because of a major mistake at Amazon that they, to their credit, honoured--I too wanted the SACD set but couldn't resist the bargain). In MCH (the only way I listen to these discs at home), the differences are not...

I have the original CD release of that album--it is fine but not outstanding. There is certainly room for improvement. However, I have found that with most SACDs of things I already have on CD, the improvement is often marginal--MCH is where SACD shines and remains the reason I still buy them (I...

Picked up the Moving Pictures DVD-A today. Am on a very long road trip (S. Florida to Montreal), so it'll be several days before I get to listen to it but I'm very much looking forward to hearing one of my top 5 albums of all time--any genre--in MCH.

Heifetz Double Concertos (Bach, Mozart and Brahms) RCA Living Stereo SACD

Is the Sony one MCH?

Henry Purcell: Fantasias for the viols, 1680 (MCH SACD)

Schumann--Humoreske and Sonata in F sharp minor Angela Hewitt piano SACD MCH

Great disc and great piece.

I confess to not having given them a proper listen. SQ (from the few samples I've played) has been quite nice. I'm an avid amateur enthusiast of classical music (meaning I enjoy it enough to buy a fair amount of it and subscribe to the Montreal Symphony every season but I'm not knowledgeable...

I have 4 of the 5 Abbado discs on DVD-A (the fifth disc, with the Ninth, is very hard to find for a reasonable price--I paid under 15$ for each of the 4 I own--some used for as little as 2.99$--but I've never found the last disc for anything under 70$). Game of Love is on Shaman and sounds...

Santana Shaman DVD-A

Jaco Pastorius Big Band--The Word is Out Diana Krall--When I look in your eyes and The Look of Love Sam Yahel, Mike Moreno, Ari Hoenig and Seamus Blake--Jazz Side of the Moon: The Music of Pink Floyd

It certainly does on my SACD of Dark Side of the Moon.

I don't have that disc, but I have a few Linn recordings and they are uniformly excellent in sound quality. Performances are quite good (though I'm not as "well-read" in some of the pieces I own to say they match or approach the best interpretations).

Dipoles, IMO, significantly diminish the MCH music experience (I understand their advantages for movie soundtracks and, in an ideal room/budget, I'd have a set of each for each application--but I bias my setup for music [placing my projector screen higher than ideal in order to place the centre...

In the end, what matters is the music. Pristine sound with music I don't like is wasted while even an AM broadcast over a clock radio of a favourite song is more enjoyable than not hearing the song at all (granted, these are extremes and I will not settle for clock radio sound for very long)...

DTS-CD and MCH audio on DVDs via Dolby Digital or DTS (regular or 96/24) are NOT "hi-res" as that term is defined. They are all LOSSY encodings (though that does not prevent them from sounding great in and of themselves--by nature, lossy encodings cannot be defined as "high resolution" which...

I'm quite fond of the MCH mix (the 2 channel mix is great as well).

Ray Sings, Basie Swings is a superior way to appreciate Ray Charles on SACD (IMHO), though I do like a few of the tracks on Genius...

All the Genesis SACDs are re-mixed (obviously for the 5.1 mixes, but also for the 2 channel mixes). The degree to which the new mixes differ from the originals varies from disc to disc (generally more pronounced on the first two (chronologically speaking) box sets). In my opinion, Wind and...