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HDCD Recommendations

DimitryZ

pfm Member
I just bought an antique HDCD DAC - Audio Alchemy DDE 3.0 and am beginning to collect HDCD discs.

What are your favorite releases in this weird format?

Folk, rock, blues, jazz and world are my musical genres.
 
Roxy Music and Bryan Ferry’s albums got remastered on HDCD CDs I think.

They did; but the last Roxy Music reissues were lovely flat transfers, rather then the fairly compressed HDCD versions.

Most, if not all of Joni's Asylum albums were issued as HDCD
King Crimson's Discipline, Beat, and Three Of A Perfect Pair are available as HDCD
Tortoise's TNT
Dave Brubeck's Take Five
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense (Expanded Edition)
All of The Doors albums
Scott 1-4
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Beck - Mutations/Sea Change/Midnight Vultures
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

That's all the ones I know I own, and need to re-rip somehow
 
Some favourites not mentioned so far:

Jacques Loussier Trio - Satie (Telarc)
Faust - The Wümme Years (not the BBC Sessions disc, but the other four in the set are HDCD)
Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Evidence)
Young Rascals - Groovin' (Atlantic Japan)
Country Gentlemen - The Complete Vanguard Recordings (Vanguard)
Rickie Lee Jones - Flying Cowboys (Audio Fidelity)
Rickie Lee Jones - The Evening Of My Best Day (V2)
Mahavishnu Orch - The Lost Trident Sessions (Columbia)
Aashish Khan - Golden Strings Of The Sarode (Moment)
Miles Davis - Jack Johnson (Columbia)
Freddie Hubbard - The Black Angel (Koch) several other Koch Jazz titles are HDCD
King Sunny Ade - Odu (Atlantic)
 
Neil Young reissued his back catalogue in HDCD if that's your thing.

Another one I found recently was 'Django and Jimmie' by Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson. Great album both SQ and musically. Funny thing is HDCD isn't mentioned anywhere on the disc or packaging, but the HDCD light and text come on when you press play.
 
Join Mitchell Blue

Joni Mitchell was a big fan of the format apparently. The 'Hits' collection sounds terrific.

I have very few, a couple of the above plus

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hard Promises
Green Day - Nimrod

Some Knopflers including Sailing to Philadelphia and Golden Heart, Elvis Costello - North.
 
Most, if not all of the Grateful Dead catalogue is available in HDCD as are most, if not all of the archival releases - Dave's Pick's etc.
 
Playing this on my (now) fabulous Alpha 9

‘Conversation’ sounds fantastic. The whole album sounds special.

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Joni Mitchell ‎– Ladies Of The Canyon
Label:
Reprise Records ‎– 7599-27450-2
Format:
CD, HDCD, Album, Remastered
Country:
Europe
Released:
2000
 
I love my Dire Straits greatest hits I think it’s called. Sounds amazing

I want Tracy Chapman and trying to find out whether greatest hits or best of are HDCD or if it’s just Collection

I know some country and western singers went into it so I’m seeking a good Johnny Cash one but not sure if he only did the highwaymen compilation in that format.

Just ordered Neil Young best of
 


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