Mike Broadman
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When I first got into SACD, the selection was limited, so I was snatching up everything I could get my hands on. With the excellent (and sometimes expensive) catalogue of boutique labels these days I'm adapting the following guidelines to start paring down the collection and limiting my list of things I want to get:
I will only buy or keep (that's right, I'm selling off SACDs that don't fit this manifesto) SACDs that are hybrids or offer an excellent surround mix. Single layer stereo is out. I need to be able to take my music on the go and this buying of the same album twice thing is ridiculous. Of course, there are exceptions. If the sound is a major improvement over the CD and it's an album I really, really love, I'll keep it or get it. Some of these are:
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
(this one being single-layer doesn't bother me at all, because I have the deluxe 2-CD edition anyway)
Charles Mingus- Ah Um
Miles Davis- Miles Smiles
Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
(not a favorite per say, but the music is just perfect mood music to envelope the room in, enhanced all the more by the SACD sound)
Miles Davis- Milestones
Joe Satriani- Engines of Creation
Classical, since I almost exclusively listen to that at home
Things I'm selling off:
All the Peter Gabriel and Police SACDs. Maybe I'll get the greatest hits Police SACD because I think it's hybrid multi-channel.
Alice in Chains greatest hits and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters- don't like the surround mixes
I will only buy or keep (that's right, I'm selling off SACDs that don't fit this manifesto) SACDs that are hybrids or offer an excellent surround mix. Single layer stereo is out. I need to be able to take my music on the go and this buying of the same album twice thing is ridiculous. Of course, there are exceptions. If the sound is a major improvement over the CD and it's an album I really, really love, I'll keep it or get it. Some of these are:
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
(this one being single-layer doesn't bother me at all, because I have the deluxe 2-CD edition anyway)
Charles Mingus- Ah Um
Miles Davis- Miles Smiles
Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
(not a favorite per say, but the music is just perfect mood music to envelope the room in, enhanced all the more by the SACD sound)
Miles Davis- Milestones
Joe Satriani- Engines of Creation
Classical, since I almost exclusively listen to that at home
Things I'm selling off:
All the Peter Gabriel and Police SACDs. Maybe I'll get the greatest hits Police SACD because I think it's hybrid multi-channel.
Alice in Chains greatest hits and Herbie Hancock's Headhunters- don't like the surround mixes