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HDCD: What do you like?

I'm upgrading from my transport/DAC to a one box. All the ones that I'm considering are HDCD compatible, but my present system isn't, nor do I have much HDCD stuff in the collection.

I need some music to evaluate the HDCD players. What recordings do you like? Is anything particularly revealing of how the player reads HDCD.

(This can probably be construed as a "what do you like to test with?" post, but I'm hoping to narrow it down.)

Eric
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mdoughty
17 posts
 
Many good hdcd releases of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones with Warner Bros., they have recently switched to Columbia though and new releases aren't in hdcd format.
vegasears
1,173 posts
 
The Mavericks "Trampoline"
Eric Clapton "Reptile"
Megadeth "Cryptic Writings"
Mark Knopfler "Gold Heart"
knaptime
9 posts
 
If you like folk/rock vocals, here are my top picks:

Joni Mitchell's "Hits" and "Misses" were remastered on HDCD and sound amazing.

Also, most recent David Wilcox CDs are HDCD.

Although the recording quality isn't as high, almost all Neil Young CDs in the past five years have been HDCD -- even some of the grungier live recordings.
jameswei
883 posts
 
If you like classical, try Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances by Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra, Reference Recordings RR-96CD. This good performance of pretty compositions is well recorded and the transfer shows off the HDCD process.
jameswei
883 posts
 
If you like classical, try Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances by Eiji Oue and the Minnesota Orchestra, Reference Recordings RR-96CD. This good performance of pretty compositions is well recorded and the transfer shows off the HDCD process.
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