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There comes a time, as in an athlete's endeavours, where everything you have worked for comes together in beautiful alignment.
In hifi, this came for me when I stuck the Blue Coast SACD on for the first time, on my PS3, Onkyo, and Tannoy powered system, as was then. It will never get better than that in terms of musical reproduction astounding me.
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Post by alan1074 July 12, 2012 (2 of 10)
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Whilst I am still a ways from my dream SACD system, I was lucky to stumble onto the sheer brilliance of "Avalon" very soon after I bought an SACD player. I've never heard an album sound so good and it revolutionised my views of how music should sound, and this is from someone who has worked on many back catalogue re-issues and listened to 1st generation stereo masters and multitracks. Most of those don't even compare to how good "Avalon" sounded, and in surround it remains to me unsurpassed.
Having had a similar experience with "Boys And Girls" and "Gaucho" I thought that all SACDs were going to be as good, of course they aren't, but I will always remember that first buzz of hearing true hi-fi with "Avalon".
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Post by hiredfox July 12, 2012 (3 of 10)
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FunkyMonkey said:
There comes a time, as in an athlete's endeavours, where everything you have worked for comes together in beautiful alignment.
In hifi, this came for me when I stuck the Blue Coast SACD on for the first time, on my PS3, Onkyo, and Tannoy powered system, as was then. It will never get better than that in terms of musical reproduction astounding me.
Just a glimpse of heaven perhaps? Keep striving, better things still surely must lie ahead?
I guess nobody felt that way about RBCD.
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Post by windhoek July 12, 2012 (4 of 10)
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I get a new highlight just about every time I play an SACD, even if I've heard it before. I listened to Dire Straits' Brothers in Arms last night and was in euphoria once again. Either I've got lucky by having a system that works really well as a system or most of the SACDs I've got are innately superb - or perhaps it's a bit of both?!
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Post by soundboy July 12, 2012 (5 of 10)
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hiredfox said:
I guess nobody felt that way about RBCD.
Not really....pretty of CDs provide great sound quality.
In fact, one of my first "eargasm" moment was listening to a Boston Acoustics/Sheffield Lab sampler CD that featured Clair Marlo (her "Let It Go" album is on SACD). With a Sony integrated amp and CD player, the music was simply glorious when played through my NHT 1.1 bookshelf speakers.
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I have a Chesky sampler CD and before I had SACD, it showed me what a humble stereo set up could sound like. It's funny, I work in I.T. and although we value quality hardware, pleasure of use is all about the software. In HiFi, software is increasingly secondary to "sexy" hardware.
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Post by windhoek July 12, 2012 (7 of 10)
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FunkyMonkey said:
I have a Cheeky sampler CD and before I had SACD, it showed me what a humble stereo set up could sound like. It's funny, I work in I.T. and although we value quality hardware, pleasure of use is all about the software. In HiFi, software is increasingly secondary to "sexy" hardware.
I think the lure of sexy hifi is down to marketing and lets face it, advertising works! Even though I can enjoy my hifi, I still want to try to make it sound better by spending more money on it rather than spending money on music lol.
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windhoek said:
Even though I can enjoy my hifi, I still want to try to make it sound better by spending more money on it rather than spending money on music lol.
I'm not such a tweaker. Once my HiFi works properly, I'd spend the money on music every time.
@FunkeyMonkey: I believe it's been argued here that most 'audiophile' music isn't all that interesting musically...
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Post by Dead Man July 12, 2012 (9 of 10)
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The overpriced but oh so worth it SHM-SACD of Paranoid would have to take pride of place for me. When I got my new speakers a couple of months ago it was the first thing I terrorised my neighbours with that day (an all SACD day I might add) because it sounds so gorgeous. As close to sitting at the mixing desk with the band as we'll ever get.
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The Seventh Taylor said:
I'm not such a tweaker. Once my HiFi works properly, I'd spend the money on music every time.
@FunkeyMonkey: I believe it's been argued here that most 'audiophile' music isn't all that interesting musically...
Those ridiculous Telearc disks I spent my money on a few years ago come to mind. I think it wa Telearc. Some stupid instrumentals recorded in an American university auditorium.
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