Your 5 Stupendous SACD vs Redbook

I also own the Dac6. The Dac6 makes regular CD's sound so good, it is amazing -- could easily eliminate one's dissatisfaction with redbook and digital, but still -- the SACD playback is even better.

Great SACD's --

Alison Krause & Union Station -- Live

Alison Krasue & Union Station -- New Favorite

NYPO, Leonard Bernstein -- Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring

John Coltrane -- Soultrane

Chet Baker - Chet

Charles Mingus -- Mingus Ah Um

Ray Brown Trio -- Soular Energy

Ray Brown, Monty Alexander, Russel Malone

Art Pepper -- Meets the Rhythm Section

Sonny Rollins -- Saxophone Collosus

Sonny Rollins -- Plus 4

SFSO and MTThomas -- Mahler's 6th

Maazel -- Moussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition

The Police -- Entire Collection

Creedence Clearwater -- Bayou Country

Patricia Barber -- Modern Cool

Proy- just wondering, how SACDs did you own before you got the DAC6?

Interesting that EMM Labs' website doesn't list
any list reference recordings, but they do have JTinn.

Anyhow here's some good music on SACD:

Jaco Pastorius Big Band-Word of Mouth Revisited
Michel Camilo-Live at the Blue Note
McCoy Tyner-Land of Giants
Kevin Mahogany-Pride and Joy
Chick Corea- Rendezous in New York

PS- Ben who says there are "some many pro-SACD members here?"

Patricia Barber -- Modern Cool
I have this on vinly also,and the SACD is way good.
Tim

Vaughan Williams, "A Sea Symphony" (Atlanta/Spano/Telarc)
Orff, "Carmina Burana (Atlanta/Runnicles/Telarc)
Vivaldi, "La Stavaganza" (Podger/Channel)
Mozart, Serenades (Manze/Hyperion)
French Violin Sonatas (Midori/Sony)

How's that for five?

As to the original question of CDs I have or have heard where the SACD stomps it... (in no particular order and nowhere near limited to five in either case).

Classical
1. Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations
2. Murray Perahia: Chopin Etudes
3. Peter Wispelwey playing Britten Cello Suites
4. Maazel/Cleveland: Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition
5. Ormandy/Philadelphia: Orff's Carmina Burana

Jazz
1. Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby
2. Al di Meola, John McLaughlin Paco de Lucia: Friday Night in San Francisco
3. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
4. Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
5. Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

In addition, there are a whole bunch of SACDs out there where I have not heard the CD (but they sound so good it is tough to imagine they don't stomp the CD). For classical, this includes (but is not limited to) all the SACD releases from the Channel Classic label, the Volodos & Perahia piano recordings on Sony (and a bunch of the older ones: Walter, Bernstein, and Boulez conducting), a bunch of the Pentatones, and ALL of the JSACDs on the Exton label (most of them Ashkenazy conducting the Czech Philharmonic) are great. For jazz, almost everything I have heard beats CD. I have many of the Miles Davis, Thelonius Monk, Brubeck, and other 'jazz greats' discs on SACD and am quite pleased with them.