Best sounding SACD (and other hi res formats)

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  • The Elton John “classic period” albums on SACD issued around 2003 are generally spectacular. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is probably the best of the ones I own.

  • The Bob Dylan titles Columbia put out on SACD (in digipak) in the early 2000s are excellent.

  • Agreed on Stones Let it Bleed too!

  • Surprisingly, the MOFI SACD of Richard Thompson’s Rumour and Sigh is disappointing compared to both the regular CD and the MOFI vinyl.

Of note, all of my SACDs have been ripped (the actual SACD layer) to DSF (no PCM converting nonsense for me!), showing off the DSD capability of my NAC N-272 quite nicely.

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