What's the Latest Stereo (or Mono) SACD in Your Collection?

[gene_stl]

I conclude that they reused some packaging layout and forgot to edit off the RBCD logo.

 

[kap'n krunch]

Just received both Judee Sill's SACDs from Elusive Disc...

EDIT:
Good news, the tapes sound great for being 50 years old..
The bad news: Kevin Gray f*cked it up royally and mastered it about 4 dB too hot and there is distortion on the loud passages on "Heart Food" see below... (the S/T one is not that bad)

Added pics....

 

[The Rang]

I’ve read elsewhere that there are issues with the sound on the 2nd album.
Maybe not Kevin’s fault.

 

[kap'n krunch]

I’ve read elsewhere that there are issues with the sound on the 2nd album.
Maybe not Kevin’s fault.

The only issue I find is the distortion on the loud passages but which are squashed on the waveform; KG probably mastered it too hot to "hide" them but a nice short blurb would have been nice, even if it was like on early CDs "The recording featured on this disc was done on analog equipment, etc."

 

[JediJoker]

The bad news: Kevin Gray f*cked it up royally and mastered it about 4 dB too hot and there is distortion on the loud passages on "Heart Food" see below...

That's surprising. Kevin isn't known for loud masters; rather, the opposite. I have to imagine this was a mistake—either on his part, or somewhere further down the line—rather than a deliberate choice.

 

[par4ken]

Just received both Judee Sill's SACDs from Elusive Disc...

EDIT:
Good news, the tapes sound great for being 50 years old..
The bad news: Kevin Gray f*cked it up royally and mastered it about 4 dB too hot and there is distortion on the loud passages on "Heart Food" see below... (the S/T one is not that bad)

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Added pics....



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Is that the SACD layer or an up sampled CD layer? If CD it's just another victim of the loudness wars. At least it's not brick walled. If it's converted from DSD perhaps the level has to be reduced (-6dB) during the conversion process? Although they do apparently exist I've never run into a clipped or brickwalled SACD yet!

 

[kap'n krunch]

Is that the SACD layer or an up sampled CD layer? If CD it's just another victim of the loudness wars. At least it's not brick walled. If it's converted from DSD perhaps the level has to be reduced (-6dB) during the conversion process? Although they do apparently exist I've never run into a clipped or brickwalled SACD yet!

it doesn't look like it's an upsampled CD on either of the SACDs. I ripped them both in 96/24 in Logic from the Oppo analog outputs at 0dB . I have a couple of SACDs where there has been one song from a CD and the cutoff at 21K is VERY noticeable and that is not the case on these.. of course you can see the "cat/dog repellent" high frequency noise that is the norm on SACDs...
Here are the waveforms and spectogram of the S/T:

and here is the spectogram of Heart Food:

 

[J. PUPSTER]

LOCAL HERO
MFSL

 

[4-earredwonder]

LOCAL HERO
MFSL

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So what's the verdict, Pupster? Great album and Great flick, as well!

 

[Hamptonman]

This sounds incredible!

 

[JediJoker]

This sounds incredible!

Any master other than the last round of wide-release Queen remasters from 2010ish would be hard-pressed to be anything but better.

 

[Quad Linda]

Eagles

 

[cbmmm3]

Eagles

MFSL did a great job on this

 

[5.1 4 Life]

Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City (2004 SACD Reissue).

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Just in from Japan and can't wait to dive into this one

The BLUES and the ABSTRACT TRUTH

 

[newslane]

Just in from Japan and can't wait to dive into this one

The BLUES and the ABSTRACT TRUTH

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This release sounds wonderful in sonic holography, too. Great album, and the liner notes are very interesting.

 

[cbmmm3]

these bad boys just arrived. going to be a peaceful easy weekend.

 

[cbmmm3]

follow up here. On The Border is my first listen. Punchy, clear and WONDERFUL !!!!!!!!!

 

[4-earredwonder]

follow up here. On The Border is my first listen. Punchy, clear and WONDERFUL !!!!!!!!!

Just like YOU, Ricky!

 

[Jeffrey Michael]

Just like YOU, Ricky!