HDCD Recommendations

[sp25]

Kari Bremnes "Norwegian Mood" and "You'd have to be here", both sung in English. If you understand Norwegian or just like the sounds then her other albums too.

 

[MotelBlues]

I’m seeking a good Johnny Cash one but not sure if he only did the highwaymen compilation in that format.

My copies (2001/2 Columbia Legacy issues) of “America” and “Ragged Old Flag” both appear to have HDCD encoding, although there’s nothing in the packaging to indicate this.

 

[Muttley2]

I love HDCD just a shame it wasn't more widely adopted I personally think they all sound better than the CD layer. Here are some I have

Manassass
Stephen Stills
Van Halen, II & 1984
Crosby Stills & Nash
Beach Boys Pets Sounds
Motley Crue , Shout at the Devil
The Doors - ALL
Billy Idol Rebel Yell
John Cougar Mellencamp - Best Of
Dire Straits Best Of , Brothers In Arms
Roxy Music
Neil Young
Lucinda Williams, Car wheels, world without tears

There may be a few more I have missed of mine

 

[theadmans]

I don't have a HDCD compatible CD player or DAC but I do have a lot of HDCD discs that I had ripped to Flac using EAC.

I found this HDCD.EXE converter which takes a 16 bit HDCD wav file and converts it to a 24 bit file:-

HDCD Software Decoder - Doom9's Forum

HDCD Software Decoder Audio encoding

forum.doom9.org

I knocked up a dos batch file to make converting all the tracks on a CD in one operation.

Works very well!

I can now play all my HDCD discs through my Raspberry Pi streamer.

 

[uncl_nigel]

The HDCDs in my collection (5 discs out of about 24 linear metres of shelf space):

HDCD	Rokia	Traouré	Wanita
HDCD	Mike	Oldfield	Amarok
HDCD	Joni	Mitchell	Blue (digitally remastered)
HDCD	Lori	Lieberman	Gun Metal Sky
HDCD	Laurie	Anderson	Life on a String

 

[rough edges]

A lot of Steve Earle’s cds are HDCD, such as El Corazon, Transcendental Blues, The Mountain, and Sidetracks.
Emmylou Harris’ Wrecking Ball is another HDCD.

 

[RJohan]

I think that Reference Recordings' CDs are or used to be HDCD-coded.

Could be because it was co-invented by “Prof.” Johnson of Reference Recordings.