KIND OF BLUE

I am doing this from memory but I think it was mostly the hiss that stood out for me. I did notice the horns in a couple of spots on both recordings sounded a little brash, then clears up. If you don't mind the hiss, get the Columbia. It's much cheaper. The sacd is around 60.00 shipped to the USA.

I will second the K2HD CD. It's the best I've heard and I've owned just about every CD version available at one time or another. It IS pricey though.

K2HD CD is really quite good and noticably better than any other version I've heard. The bite of the saxes is astonishing and all around very musical. I've not heard any SACD version.

System:

Rega R Apollo, Decware DAC, MAC Mystic cabling, AQ Power 2 PC, Manley Jumbo Shrimp pre and Mahi Mahi monoblocks, Penaudio Cenya monitors.

I have many versions of this
1-sacd (jpn)
2-mastersound mini lp
3-gold mastersound
4-legacy
5-original master series
and the best version
6-K2HD which is sublime

All must wait for the bluray issue, which I am sure will be the best issue. For now I give the r2r version the highest media reading, and yes I have all the others too.