Post by Daland February 4, 2010 (21 of 80)
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Dvorak's Slavonic Dances performed by the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell.
Unlike the CD the SACD version offered a sound that was not only brilliant, but also warm and full. This recording immediately won me over to SACD.
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Post by Cilea February 4, 2010 (22 of 80)
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Post by steveo February 4, 2010 (23 of 80)
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tream said:
Mahler's 6th Symphony, SFS Media. I didn't have an SACD player at the time, which was early 2002. My CD player at the time(a Cal Labs CL20) wouldn't read the CD layer.....so I had to buy an SACD player. The rest is now history!
I was in the same boat. Bought MTT's Mahler 1, 4 & 6 before I bought an SACD player. Curious; my sacd player will not read the sacd layer on 4 and 6, but reads the RB layer just fine.
The first SACD I bought and listened to on my sacd player was Brahms Piano Quintet on Praga. Wow. Still very vivid memories of that.
Steve O.
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Post by chenzl February 4, 2010 (24 of 80)
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Beethoven 'Emperor'& symphony 5 by Serkin/Ozawa on Telarc. I didn't had an SACD player then.
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Post by Kutyatest February 4, 2010 (25 of 80)
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For me it was "The Carpenters Singles 1969-1981", which my wife surprised me with at Christmas 2006. I had just earlier that month - by a week or so - taken delivery of my very first hi-res player, the Arcam DV137. I had yet to take delivery of the already ordered Arcam AVR350 multi-channel receiver, and I was still using the Yamaha RX-V800 that I'd been using for several years. I connected my player to my amp using digi-coax, and was shocked to find out that it'd play - but without any sound!
Anyway, by the time the amp arrived, and a nearby Arcam dealer set me right on how to connect (as the owners manual is a bit deficient - despite being an english product), I was able to hear my first SACD in all it's glory. It was - and still is - quite impressive. Not an SACD that I would automatically consider demostrating SACD with, but Karen's vocals really do shine with this disc. I already owned at the time, a couple of Carpenters CDs, so I was able to do some of my very first side-by-side comparisons. It was immediately evident, the superiority of hi-res over CD - on an album I wouldn't have considered suitable for comprison purposes.
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Post by wolf359 February 5, 2010 (26 of 80)
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Didn't have an SACD player to start with but listened to a number of DVD-A's on a DVD player hooked up for multichannel replay, then found a copy of Darkside of the Moon going cheap in a sale that was my first SACD purchase. Still no SACD replay possible at time. Borrowed a PS3 with SACD replay and knocked out by disc that was it hooked on the format. Intresting the number of posters that have said that SACD (DTSOM) to blame for their obsession yet no sign of the other Floyd albums come on EMI get your finger out.
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Post by tmcevoy February 7, 2010 (27 of 80)
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My first sacd was "Avalon" Roxy Music. First sacd player was an Oppo Digital. That was late 2007. I have about 25 sacd discs and quite a wish list. I am sold on the format.
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JS Bach - Arias with Angelika Kirchschlager
Bach: Arias - Angelika Kirchschlager
Funny things about it are that a) it was a special offer, a mere EUR 5 or so, b) I was fully aware at buying that it was a single layer SACD and I would not be able to play it, not owning a SACD player then and c) that in terms of sound quality this one has become one of my favourite multichannel reference discs for vocal baroque music.
This was the start of a lengthy journey, leading to a total of currently nearly 700 SACDs on my shelves. May the journey go on for some time.
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My first SACD was Hilary Hahn playing the Brahms and Stravinsky violin concertos. I had received the red book copy for Christmas and liked it so well I decided to purchase the SACD for the purpose of taking to Hi-Fi Shops to investigate this new medium. I first took it to "Tweeter Etc." where we listened to a modest system employing Vienna Acoustics speakers, and frankly I have forgotten the electronics. We listened to the rbcd first then put on the SACD. The first tutti in the first movement had my wife and I looking at each other in disappointment. It was almost exactly like the rbcd. I signaled to the salesman that we had heard enough and he stopped the playback, but said well now let's hear it in multi-channel. I looked at my wife and she returned a "What have we got to loose?" look at me so I said: "OK".
The opening bars of the Brahms were reproduced with a clarity I never heard previously. We were stunned! My wife exclaimed (in verbiage I didn't even know she was aware of): "I never heard a sound stage like that before - it sounds like we are actually in the concert hall!"
The rest is history.
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