The Absolute Sound: SACD Sampler [Hybrid SACD]

The Absolute Sound: SACD Sampler [Hybrid SACD]

The Absolute Sound: SACD Sampler [Hybrid SACD]
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Performer: Earle Patriarco
Performer: Brett Polegato
Composer: Henry Purcell
Composer: Carl Orff
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Bohuslav Martinu
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Maurice Ravel
Composer: Joaquin Rodrigo
Composer: Sergey Prokofiev
Composer: German Traditional
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Composer: Jennifer Higdon
Composer: Carl Nielsen
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Conductor: Rolf Smedvig
Conductor: Donald Runnicles
Conductor: Martin Pearlman
Conductor: Paavo Järvi
Conductor: Jesús López-Cobos
Edition: Music CD
Format: Super Audio CD - DSD
CD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
  1. Rondeau
  2. In taberna: Intaberna quando sumus (excerpt)
  3. Temus est iocundum (excerpt)
  4. Hornpipe
  5. III. Poco allegro
  6. Ibéria: Le matin d'un jour de fète (Holiday Morning)
  7. Danse générale (General Dance)
  8. En Aranjuez con tu amor, for voice & piano (or guitar) (after the secon
  9. Montagues & Capulets
  10. Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
  11. Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold)
  12. Movement IV
  13. II. Allegro: -Presto
  14. Finale: The Explorers (excerpt)

Music reviews of The Absolute Sound: SACD Sampler [Hybrid SACD]

Music Review: Good for what it is, however narrow.
Rating: 3 Stars

The Absolute Sound has been a premiere audiophile rag for decades. If you are one, you already know them. If not, then there is only a small chance their magazine will be useful to you. They have another publication for home theatre, "Perfect Vision" which has far broader appeal these days. SACD is the format for this disk. Many of them are pressed in "hybrid" for use on conventional CD players. SACD is a significant improvement on the CD, which initially promised "perfect sound forever".

Telarc is a particularly high quality label that supports SACD. They have a fine list of recordings that extends far beyond these chestnuts.

To appreciate this improvement you need to have a SACD player. So the best use of this disk is to bring it with you to different audio stores to audition their equipment. Over time it functions as a reference disk, or benchmark, as you compare different sound systems.

Because it has only bleeding hunks of well known classical music, it has little other value unless you are interested in classical music but have little experience of it. In that case it may serve as a sampler to lead you to buy complete recordings of these selections. But again you need the SACD player, which you may already have if you are a jazz or rock audiophile. Otherwise, pass it by.

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