CD
or SACD?
April
23, 2026
Marc,
I
noticed that the new Blue Note Tone Poet CD versions of the Kenny Burrell and Kenny Dorham
live sets are being sold on Amazon. They are normal CDs, not UHQ CDs, which Blue Note has
been selling. For about $10 or so more, CDJapan is selling these as SACDs. Do you think
it's worth the difference to buy the SACDs? Blue Note stated that they chose UHQ CD over
SACD because it sounded better.
Jeff
Levine
For
me, this is an easy call. The SACD is the choice over the UHQ CD, because the SACD is a
DSD master and the CD is not. Also, if the SACD is a hybrid, you get a CD layer too. -Marc
Mickelson
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list
April
1, 2026
Marc,
Please
add me to your mailing list. Thanks.
Don
Charbula
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