Your 5 Stupendous SACD vs Redbook

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.

Kana813

I haven't received my SACD player or Dac yet, hopefully this month or early December. The answer to your question is I don't own any SACD yet. I wanted to start buying some good recordings before it arrives. I do appreciate all of your SACD choices, hopefully others on the gon will also.

Thank you

equipment makes a huge difference plying Mahler 3rd with Boulez sacd which is red book compatible using the dennon 2700 for sacd playback,sounded poor.However playing the same cd on Meridian 800
in the cd mode sounded great by far superior to tha sacd playback on a poor player.By the way I find by far the best sound is provided by the unreasonably expensive XRCD JVC.

Just found this thread, there ya go, Ben! :-) I'd recommend any of the three discs in the current SFO Symphony Mahler cycle, the 6th Symphony in particular for the Hammers of Fate in the final movement; the Vaughnn-Williams Sea Symphony, Music of Turina and Debussy and Berloz Symphonie Fantastique on Telarc; the Linn Records Poulenc Organ Concerto; any of the Alison Krause discs, particularly New Favorite; the Channel Records Wispelway disc with the Saint Saens Cello Concerto, among other works; the Pentatone Schumann Symphonies 1 and 3, a surprise to me, a lot of those old Philips recordings are better than I thought; the Philips Dvorak 8th and 9th Symphonies with Fischer and the Budapest; the Mozart Symphonies 39 and 41 with the Orchestra of St. Lukes (their own label, I believe); and a bunch more that I don't have time to list.

There are too many great titles to list! Search http://www.sacdinfo.com and see what kind of ratings other's have given the music you are looking for prior to purchase. Of course there are exceptions, for example when its a favorite piece of music and has not yet been rated! But it gives you a guide line of where things are. Good luck on your quest for music, and as a fellow Emm labs owner- you made a WISE decision.