1st SACD Purchase


I just acquired a transport that plays SACDs.  I own a few thousand CDs, but not a single SACD.  So, I want to purchase a SACD to give this transport a run for its money.  Please suggest to me one SACD release that will really expose my transport and the rest of the system to a good test of its capabilities to reproduce quality sounds.  Any genre works for me.

Thanks
pgaulke60
sara k Hell or High Water. Rolling Stones Between the Buttons DSD SHM Universal Music, Made in Japan.
Norah Jones "Come Away With Me" SACD, which should also be listed in the Best Debut Album thread.

By the way, if your player will handle DVD-A, I used to download high-res tracks from HD Tracks and other sources and burn them to DVD-A before I put a Mac Mini into my system.  There are still a lot of  high quality professional DVD-A products available, such as Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly."  (Hah!  It's only $130 on Amazon right now...)  Pink Floyd, Eagles, Clapton, Rush, etc.  Some are surround sound, but there's usually a 2 channel option.


Natasha Barrett - Trade Winds SACD
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Natasha Barrett is holding a PHD and at the moment professor for 3D sound at the university at Oslo. Sound with "plankton micro details".
Quite nice and relaxing music.


Louise Rogers - Black Coffee SACD
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Very nice Jazz - even for those who do not like Jazz in general so much. Just consider it extremely good pop - very well recorded.
This is "audiophile" while very nice for those who just like relaxing music with some kicks from time to time.


Friedemann - Beauty and Mystery of Touch SACD
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Friedemann music can be confused with synthesizer.
It is 100% instrumental, I have seen him and his band live.
The music might be called Jazz-Rock or Fusion or World Music.


Goldfrapp - Supernature SACD
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Some engaging bass-driven pop.


SACD Mainstream to own IMHO:
(Some can be expensive)
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Mike Oldfield - 1973 - Tubular Bells
Roxy Music - Avalon
Dire Straits - 1978 - Dire Straits
Dire Straits - 1985 - Brothers In Arms
Santana - Abraxas
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
The Doors - L.A. Woman
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - 1975 - Wish You Were Here
The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
The Eagles - Hotel California
Eric Clapton-Slowhand
Cat Stevens - 1970 - Tea For The Tillerman
Elton John - 1973 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Depeche Mode - 1982 - А Broken Frame (and the DpMd)
Dead Can Dance - 1990 - Aion (and other DcD)
Billy Joel - An Innocent Man
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Genesis - (1983) Genesis
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Rolling Stones - 1981 - Tattoo You
The Rolling Stones - 1982 - Still Life (and the TRS)
Elvis Presley - 24 Karat Hits!
Derek and the Dominos - Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs MFSL



Snilf5.....If you say you like Part.....  get Fratres (Brothers).   It depicts monks decending stairs from above.   Its written in the style of Guillaum de Machaut.... about 1300