your favourit sacd or dvd audio (1 Viewer)

[Robert Cowan]

DVDA

bjork - vespertine
emerson lake and palmer - brain salad surgery (only if your system is up to it! can show weaknesses in any system)
missy elliot

SACD

beck - sea change

 

[pitchman]

SACD
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

DVD-A
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

 

[Robert Powers]

Let's try this one more time. I'm sorry about the previous one not working.

http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-6462_7-5102231-1.html

Below are a few other sites that I found with reviews on DVD-A and SACD titles.




http://www.sacdinfo.com/

http://www.audaud.com/audaud/JUL-AUG...res3JUL03.html

 

[Rachael B]

My fav's DVD-A's:

Boz Scaggs DIG
Buena Vista Social Club
Frank Zappa HALLOWEEN

SACD:

Manfredo Fest JUST JOBIM
Pink Floyd DSOTM
Will and Rainbow HARMONY
Grant-Lee Phillips MOBILIZE
The Kinks LOW BUDJET
The Zombies Greatest Hits
Sonny Rollins SAXOPHONE COLOSSUS
Ana Caram BLUE BOSSA
Jacintha JACINTHA IS HER NAME
Colleen Sexton GREATEST FIND

...and an honorable mention to the Suitcase Pimps' LOVE IS GRAND.

Since I have more SACD's, I naturally have more favourites in that format.

 

[Skyler]

My favorites;

SACD
Pink Floyd - DSOTM
Roxy Music - Avalon
Norah Jones - Come away with Me
The Police - Every breath you take (the singles)

DVD-Audio
Blue Man Group - Audio

I would like to get the Flaming Lips & Outkast DVD-A's, as well as the Beck SACD.

I am only doing DVD-Audio in my bedroom, as my ES SACD Changer is in the main HT. My Rotel only has 1 set of 5.1 inputs. I wish I could have BOTH in the HT without buying a Universal player.

 

[Shawn C]

DVD-A

Frank Sinatra: Sinatra At The Sands (5.1)

Have you heard the new one with Dean, Sammy and Frank? It's FANTASTIC. I picked it up over at Elusive Disc.

 

[Paul Boyle]

DVD-A
Hotel California - Eagles
Brain Salad Surgery - ELP
Automatic For The People - REM

SACD
DSOTM - Pink Floyd
Up - Peter Gabriel

Paul

 

[Chris Tedesco]

SACD: Beck, Sea Change...hands down

 

[BrandonMLR]

SACD: Beck, Sea Change...hands down

agreed - best I have heard so far on either format

Observations so far...

SACD

Highly Recommended

Beck - Sea Change
Pink Floyd - DSOTM (wish for hi-rez 2 channel!!!)
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me

Good

Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
Rolling Stones - Let it Bleed

promising

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
(title track on RS500 disc was great!)

DVD-Audio

Highly Recommended

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People

Good

Chicago - II
Yes - Fragile
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Queen - A Night at the Opera

Okay

The Doors - L.A. Woman
(the multichannel is fun to listen to, but believe it or not, I prefer the HDCD version from The Doors box set!)

 

[Ted Lee]

just bought a pioneer 563a, so i thought i'd resurrect this thread and see if anyone has anything new to add to this list.

 

[AricB]

depending on your taste...

SACD
Elton John-GBYBR
Pink Floyd-DSOTM
Bowie-Heathen
Beck-Sea Change
steely dan-gaucho
joe satriani-strange beautiful music
miles davis-kind of blue
billy joel-stranger

DVDA
Porcupine Tree-In Absentia
geoff tate-geoff tate
steve stevens-flamenco a go go
steely dan-everything must go
ministry-animositisomina
megadeath-peace sells
bjork-vespertine
flaming lips-yoshimi

dvdv in 5.1
Cornelius-Point 5.1

 

[Lee Scoggins]

So many choices, but I am going to go with:

Alison Krauss and Union Station: Live

Wonderful simple recording, Alison's beautiful voice, and great finely crafted instrument work.

 

[gene c]

No hi-res player yet so only buying DVD-A/DTS for now. A few titles seem to pop up on all of these lists. Beck's Sea Change, DSOTM, Night Fly (can't say enough good things about this one. My personal favorite) among others. Alice Coopers Welcome To My Nightmare was a pleasant surprise. Very well done if you like his stuff. And if you want to hear what a real aggressive mix sounds like, try The Steve Miller Bands "Fly Like An Eagle" on DTS. Fills the room with sound.

 

[ScottCHI]

gimme a few more weeks.

so far, the most impressively engineered hirez i have is pat metheny's imaginary day dvda.

 

[Todd Phillips]

How about some classical?

Dvorak: Symphony Nos. 8, 9 - Budapest Festival Orchestra/Ivan Fischer (SACD Hybrid)

Holst: The Planets - Andre Previn (DVD-Audio)

Mozart: Requiem - Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Mackerras (SACD Hybrid)

 

[AaronD]

Anyone find a place on line with a complete selection of SACD and DVDA? I like places like acoustic sounds and elusive disc but they don't have -everything-. Heck even a comprehensive list of whats out there would be nice.

-Aaron

 

[Rachael B]

I have some new favourites on SACD:

Feeder COMFORT IN SOUND
Colleen Sexton GREATEST FIND
Donovan STORYTELLER
Nickel Creek THIS SIDE
Aimee Mann BACHELOR NO. 2
all 6 Oscar Peterson's Vol's 1-6
various artists (HighNote artists) JAZZ IN AN R&B GROOVE
Monty Alexander with Ernest Ranglin's ROCKSTEADY

DVD-A:

Bjork VESPERTINE
Alan Parsons Project I ROBOT

 

[JonathanG]

SACD:
- Art of Noise 'Daft'
- The Who 'Tommy'
- Pink Floyd 'Dark Side of the Moon'
- Feeder 'Comfort in Sound'

DVD-Audio:
- Bjork 'Vespertine'
- Flaming Lips 'Yoshimi'

 

[DaveDickey]

DVD-A:
Chicago II

SACD stereo:
Kinks, Low Budget

SACD multi-channel:
Peter Tosh, Legalize It

 

[Todd Phillips]

Anyone find a place on line with a complete selection of SACD and DVDA? I like places like acoustic sounds and elusive disc but they don't have -everything-. Heck even a comprehensive list of whats out there would be nice.

Try towerrecords.com -- they've had every SACD I've looked for.