Axiom Home Page Forums General Discussion Stereo Who Needs Hi-Rez When A CD Can Sound This Good?

I love hi-rez music. However, tonight I played the gold disc version of Faces "A nod is as good as a wink..." released last year by Audio Fidelity and it sounds every bit as good as any of my hi-rez recordings. It is amazing what a properly mastered CD can sound like. I was stunned at the sound that was coming out of the old M60s.

If you haven't heard this CD...give it a chance. Not only does it sound amazing...the music is incredible. Given my love for classic rock...I don't know how I missed this one over the years.

Thanks for the tip. I'll have to look up the track listing for Nod. Stay With Me is the only one I recall.

The special discs I have are SACD and DVD-A. Maybe a total of five. The only one that really impressed me was Dark Side of the Moon. I have Fragile, and unless I'm doing something wrong, it is a mess mix wise. And, I am a huge Yes fan.

Off the track abit...anyway, what are some hi-rez discs that you find worthy of buying?

FYI - I see the Brothers in Arms 20th Anniversary Edition won the Grammy for Surround Sound Album.

I haven't heard Brother In Arms, so I cannot comment on it; however, I have read positive opinions on it.

If you like this sort of stuff, I would recommend the Elton John and The Kinks SACDs (all of them sound nice to me). I'm planning on picking up the CCR SACDs in the coming weeks...as I think the license on those will expire soon and then they will be gone.

Brother In Arms is great in SACD, as well as Dark Side of the Moon, another I found really great in SACD is Alison Krauss + Union Station- New Favorite.

Geez...I could spend a fortune re-buying EJ stuff. As far as The Kinks...what a great, pretty much underated band that was. All Day And All The Night is really hard rockin' for the middle 60's. I have Cosmo's Factory (don't even remember if it's re-mastered) but, no other CCR.

Pardon my ignorance...is hi-rez synonymous with SACD and/or DVD-A? (yet another question for the all knowing and all powerful Internet)

Thanks for the suggestions!

When I refer to hi-rez, I am talking about SACD and DVD-A. Not sure if that is entirely correct; however, I consider it synonymous.

Yes, both of them are high-resolution standards, although the future appears bleak for both, atleast in Asia. I hope they do not go the way DCC did.

I love Dire Straits and was thinking of getting Brothers in Arms on SACD but was scared after reading a really bad review online (sorry but the link escapes me). The reviewer said that the remix butchered the drums, "like they were full of gravel". Anyone know what he was talking about? Thanks!

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Brothers in Arms on SACD is great, I certainly didn't hear what that reviewer was talking about. Didn't it win best SACD?

... at the Grammys the other day? You know, I think it did. Maybe I will have to try it out.