What are your favorite SACDs

My two favorite are Thomson: The Plow That Broke the Plains/The River - Stokowski and Tchaikovsky/Saint-Saens/Bruch - Wispelwey. The sound quality is just so pure and fantastic! The Virgin Thompson/Stokowski is probably one of the best analog recordings around. I also have it on vinyl since I loved the SACD so much. And sorry, the vinyl is actually a bit better, as you probably imagined.

Two others worth mentioning are Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps, L'Oiseau de Feu - Stravinsky and Copland: Appalachian Spring, Hindemith - Louis Lane/Robert Shaw. I have the latter on redbook CD and vinyl. The dynamics of that 50khz telarc soundstream recording is just fantastic. I have a number of 50khz PCM soundstream recordings on rebook and vinyl and in all cases the vinyl is better. So that's why I'm comfortable recommending the SACD, even though I haven't heard it yet. The Stravinsky Firebird and Sacre are also quite enjoyable as well. I look forward to listening to it again now that spring is here again in Cleveland.

Cheers!

Aaron

There are hundreds and hundreds of great SACD's. I've got a few hundred in
my collection and have only run across a few duds. My list would be far too
long. Good place to start is with http://sa-cd.net.

You'll find listings of all SACD's, helpful reviews, and links to merchants.

Although they do not link http://store.acousticsounds.com which is one of my favorite on-line vendors of SACD's and other audiophile recordings.