[Cheekster]

Having recently purchased a Denon 1930 DVD player which supports DVD-Audio and SACD playback, I wondered what albums peeps would recommend as first purchases for trialling these new multi surround formats?

Music taste is mainly dance but seen as not much of that is available on these new formats, I'm mainly after a few albums that really do the new formats justice. Kind of demo material I guess.

Thanks.

Cheekster.

[essjay]

These are the discs I can recommend from my collection.

The Beatles - Love (DVD Audio)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (DVD Audio)
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (SACD)
REM - The Best Of (DVD Audio)
Neil Young - Harvest (DVD Audio)
Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell ! (SACD)
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon (SACD)
Queen - A Night At The Opera (DVD Audio)

I have a few others as well but might not be to your taste

[MarkE19]

The normal recommendations are:

Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd on SACD (also available as a DVD-A via BitTorrent)
A Night At The Opera and The Game - Queen on DVD-A
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits on SACD
War Of The Worlds - Jeff Wayne on SACD
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield on both SACD & DVD-A

a search of this forum wil also bring up several old threads that have covered this question in the past and will offer far more recomendations.

Mark.

[overkill]

Add to that:-

REM - Automatic for the people DVD-A
Eagles - Hotel California DVD-A
Neil Young - On the Beach DVD-A
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks SACD
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing DVD-A
Porcupine Tree - Stupid Dream DVD-A (will not be your cup of tea - but a quite brilliant recording in HI-res)
Elton John - Yellow Brick Road SACD & DVD-A

[russ123]

Originally Posted by essjay

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (SACD)

5.99 at Amazon at the mo

[Mr X]

I also like dance/r&b. As you say, hard to find but but for what it's worth my collection includes... (SACD unless marked)

Groove Armada - Vertigo
Studio Voddoo - Club Voodoo (DVD-A)
Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Isley brothers - 3+3
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Dentinys Child - Survivor
Beyonce - Crazy in Love
Babyface - The Day
Depeche Mode - 101, Violator, Music for the Masses
Alicia Keys - Songs In A Minor (DVD-A)
Usher -8701 (DVD-A)


If I could have one SACD wish it would be Prodigy - Fat of The Land or anything by Kate Bush (yes I know that's two wishes!)

[Retronana]

Agree with most of the recommendations so far, would add a few offerings in the Dance genre:

Paul Van Dyke: Refections SACD 5.1
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1557

Beyoncé: Dangerously in Love SACD 5.1
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1933

Schiller: Leben SACD 5.1
http://www.sa-cd.net/showtitle/1932

[ianrauk]

Blue Man group - Complex
Porcupine Tree - Deadwing

Both these albums were made for sorround music in mind