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As the title suggests could you recommend me some SACDs please and tell me which ones not to buy please? Thanks
I like all sorts of music to be honest not classical to be fair though. I have been through the list on eBay though and have bought some already, can you buy them from any other place? ThanksSurely that's going to depend on what genre of music you like........
I don't have any SACD s that I wouldn't buy
Can you recommend any other places apart from eBay to buy them too? ThanksGot to agree with Al here, I've got a few but they are albums that I was actually interested in having on SACD.
Thanks mate. Typing sacd on searches on Amazon and eBay threw up more results for me. Just bought Top Gun soundtrack and Carpenters SACDs.Amazon have a few on their site. I think most of the ones I've purchased have come via eBay from Japan. Type SACD in google and see what comes up mate.
You could have a trawl through discogs they have huge selection of new/used.
Great mate! Just ordered.The Bangles Greatest Hits is the best SACD I've come across.
Thanks mate!Just a word of caution: If you start purchasing outside the EU don't gorge purchase from one supplier as anything over £15 could see you hit with a bill for 20% VAT (if you are unlucky) from those nice people at Revenue&Customs, plus an admin fee from the delivering carrier. The last time I looked the Royal Mail had the lowest admin fee of about £9, other carriers charge substantially more.
Wise advice, they may appear cheaper in Japan but you can get caught out.Just a word of caution: If you start purchasing outside the EU don't gorge purchase from one supplier as anything over £15 could see you hit with a bill for 20% VAT (if you are unlucky) from those nice people at Revenue&Customs, plus an admin fee from the delivering carrier. The last time I looked the Royal Mail had the lowest admin fee of about £9, other carriers charge substantially more.
Thanks mate.It depends. SACDs can have surround-sound encoding (while Spotify certainly does not), while also offering very high bitrates.
Whether high bitrates are important is subject to much debate, even among top studio engineers (who should have pretty good hearing!). In blind testing, the results of 192kHz sampling vs 44.1kHz sampling are basically random - people can't tell which is which reliably.
So, from a conventional stereo HiFi point of view, I wouldn't bother with SACDs. I'd certainly look into them if I had a really good surround setup, but I don't. Even for movies, stereo works just fine for me.
All that said, there's a psychological part to listening to music. If having something technically superior is important to your enjoyment of the music, then go ahead and pursue SACDs. I don't mind either way.
Chris
Really good thanks!The Bangles Greatest Hits is the best SACD I've come across.