Welcome to the club a bit late but as you would say :" Mieux vaut tard que jamais"
SACD has been my format of choice since 2002; at first I was amazed by the multichannel effects but with time high quality and details became my priority.
Currently I enjoy SACD on my Arcam CD37, it's true to enjoy SACD you will need a system that can dig out the details and speakers that can coop with dynamics.
If we put multichannel on the side I believe SACD shines more with classical, jazz, vocals , Blues more than with Techno and Rock music, reason is in loud and highly compressed music a lot is happening and don't believe anyone would be sitting on a lazy boy chair listening to Hard rock music focusing on every note played by a guitar or the shimmering of cymbals.
No doubt MP3 and other digital music format helped kill the SACD, and no doubt Sony being a huge multinational lost interest in the format, but as you know " le malheur des uns fait le bonheur des autres" so some medium sized and small companies found an opportunity in this niche market referred to as "Audiophile". new SACDs are released on weekly basis.
To find out what is availabe in the market and the latest releases check sa-cd.net .
Price issue: For some reason the last 4 months witnessed a high jump in SACDs prices, no doubt someone is trying to maximize his profit by taking advantage of the Audiophiles who would pay a premium to secure a copy of what is believed to be a dying format.
Below some SACDs I own that really show the superiority of the format in 2 Channel configuration-
-Time Out (The Dave Brubeck Quartet)
-Shangri-la Mark Knofler
-Somethin' ELSE (Cannonball Adderley) : I have the remastered CD version of this Album, and the difference between SACD and CD version is like the difference between Day and Night.
-Come away with me (Norah Jones)
-Live on the BBC (Deep Purple)
-Jazz in the key of Blue (Jimmy Cobb)
-Secret Love (Claire Martin)
- Beethoven Symphoines N1-9 (LSO)
-Mozart Requiem (Deutshe Grammophon)
One final note: some but very few Labels have very high standard recordings and anyone who is into jazz should check records from Naim, Chesky records and ECM.
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