I think you may have made a mistake with your choice of upgrades. I know the Oppo is a good sounding universal player but its not an Ayre 7. SACD is better but that doesn't mean that you can just disregard the player. Listening to redbook through a unit like the Ayre can easily outclass a lesser SACD player in many areas. If you have a local Ayre dealer, I would recommend listening to an Ayre 5 with both CD and SACD. Doing it that way will allow you to hear the differences in the formats and not the players.
SACD remasters- any better than CD version?
I have recently changed from an Ayre CX-7 to the Oppo 105 in my system which is straight forward balanced stereo into an Ayre AX-7 with Proac's 2.5
I have a variety of SACD hybrids and indeed the new and very expensive SACD version of Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
That particular disc is imho not as pleasing sonically as the Gold Mastersound version from years ago...came in the long box...and it is not as good as the last remaster either-smoother yes but lacking in dynamics imho.
The new Mobile Fidelity version of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is probably the best digital version of that album but the differences between the CD layer and SACD layer are marginal-just different not better.
And that's a theme I hear time and time again...SACD doesn't really seem to bring anything to the party other than a smoothness and I would say that actually sounds a tad dull in most cases.
Indeed I think most interesting on the Oppo through my system is that HDCD's seem to give the best sonic replay-deep sound
stages and loads of detail.
Is it fair to say SACD has not made any of the classic recordings of the rock era sound any better?
Or are there discs I am missing out on?
I have a variety of SACD hybrids and indeed the new and very expensive SACD version of Floyd's Wish You Were Here.
That particular disc is imho not as pleasing sonically as the Gold Mastersound version from years ago...came in the long box...and it is not as good as the last remaster either-smoother yes but lacking in dynamics imho.
The new Mobile Fidelity version of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks is probably the best digital version of that album but the differences between the CD layer and SACD layer are marginal-just different not better.
And that's a theme I hear time and time again...SACD doesn't really seem to bring anything to the party other than a smoothness and I would say that actually sounds a tad dull in most cases.
Indeed I think most interesting on the Oppo through my system is that HDCD's seem to give the best sonic replay-deep sound
stages and loads of detail.
Is it fair to say SACD has not made any of the classic recordings of the rock era sound any better?
Or are there discs I am missing out on?
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