G'day,
Bought a new DVD player on the weekend, which just happens to play DVD-A and SACD (a Pioneer DV-676a, actually). It's only a AUD$200 machine, so I don't expect the sound quality for DVD-A and SACD to be wonderful.
I've always been a bit suspect about instruments coming from more than two channels, but now that I've got the new DVD player, I thought I should dip my toes into multi-channel music.
I'm getting the obligatory "Dark Side Of The Moon" SACD, even though I've heard the two-channel layer is somewhat ordinary. This is one recording where I think multi-channel was intended (and it's only US$9.99 at the moment from Amazon).
So I'm looking for recommendations of hybrid SACD titles, whose two-channel layer is at least the equal of the corresponding CD. This way, if the multi-channel experience leaves me cold (or, more likely, my DVD player doesn't reproduce the sound to sufficient quality), then I've at least got the two-channel layer to fall back on (through my Rotel RCD-1072 CD player).
As a start, I'm thinking about Diana Krall's "The Look Of Love" and "Love Scenes" hybrid SACDs. Can anyone comment on the sound quality of the two-channel layer on these? These titles are also on DVD-A, so if anyone can offer a comparison between the SACD and DVD-A versions, that would also be beaut.
--Geoff
Bought a new DVD player on the weekend, which just happens to play DVD-A and SACD (a Pioneer DV-676a, actually). It's only a AUD$200 machine, so I don't expect the sound quality for DVD-A and SACD to be wonderful.
I've always been a bit suspect about instruments coming from more than two channels, but now that I've got the new DVD player, I thought I should dip my toes into multi-channel music.
I'm getting the obligatory "Dark Side Of The Moon" SACD, even though I've heard the two-channel layer is somewhat ordinary. This is one recording where I think multi-channel was intended (and it's only US$9.99 at the moment from Amazon).
So I'm looking for recommendations of hybrid SACD titles, whose two-channel layer is at least the equal of the corresponding CD. This way, if the multi-channel experience leaves me cold (or, more likely, my DVD player doesn't reproduce the sound to sufficient quality), then I've at least got the two-channel layer to fall back on (through my Rotel RCD-1072 CD player).
As a start, I'm thinking about Diana Krall's "The Look Of Love" and "Love Scenes" hybrid SACDs. Can anyone comment on the sound quality of the two-channel layer on these? These titles are also on DVD-A, so if anyone can offer a comparison between the SACD and DVD-A versions, that would also be beaut.
--Geoff
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