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


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
If you're a Morten Lauridsen fan I'd suggest Lux aeterna on the Hyperion label.  Beautiful and moving contemporary choral music.
It came out in 2017. It doesn't play 4K Blu-ray. It doesn't support HDR10. It doesn't have 7-channel RCA out. Comparing to OPPO205, it isn't even close. McIntosh is good in making Amplifiers, Pre-amplifiers and integrate Amplifiers, and that's it. They know if you have their amps and pre-amp, you want to complete your system with all McIntosh gears including Audio Video player and streamer. So they don't need to spend time and money in making the best.
Further, If you have SACDs, then buy an SACD player. You don't buy an SACD player then find some SACDs to experience how good your player is. I have been using OPPO for many years. The last and current one is the OPPO205. It does play SACDs, but I don't hear a big difference with other CDs. Finally, since you don't have SACDs, anf if you don't want to pay for an overpriced OPPO205, you can buy the Panasonic DP-UB9000 for $1000 and use the different money to but a very good streamer such as the Naim Uniti Atom. This pair will outperform your MVP901.
I know I'm off topic because you're asking where and how to buy some SACDs. So I apologize. :)
rcprince --  Hey, I've got that Morten Lauridsen CD, except mine is on the RCM label.  Not an SACD, though.  I played it a lot, back at the turn of the century.  Another modernist but eminently accessible, utterly beautiful piece is Eric Whitacre's choral work Cloudburst.  Definitely worth a try.  That CD, by the way, is indeed on Hyperion.