"Love Supreme" Coltrane SACD vs CD
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http://www.bluenote.com/bulletinboard/ubb-cgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=16&t=000591
une excellente critique de "love supreme" en sacd de Coltrane
que je cite ici ( ou plutot comparaison sacd / cd )
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This might be totally tedious to some, so if you're bored with SACD
"hype", do not read on...
I hadn't picked up any SACDs for a while, but finally got my act
together and ordered a whole bunch last week (hardly any of the good
stuff is out here in Norway yet). So far I've only received 3 of them,
with Beck's Sea Change, and a whole bunch of Analogue Productions
titles being on back order. So, today I picked up A Love Supreme, In a
Silent Way and Ryan Adams' Gold.
First one out was A Love Supreme. I had finally picked up the new
Deluxe Edition just a week ago. I was mighty pleased with that - great
sound, great packaging and excellent value for money with all the
extra stuff. Popping in the SACD, my expectations were high. Within
seconds, I found myself focusing on the bass, which I don't think has
*ever* happened before with this album (no offense to Jimmy Garrison,
of course, but he's got some serious attention-grabbers with him...).
Wow! Finally each note is distinct, and not just a wooly pillow for
the rest of the music! Then I heard that trademark SACD piano sound. I
can't describe it, but I think it's best evidenced by the Kind of Blue
SACD. It has a certain "bloom" to it, as opposed to the "clank" of
redbook CD. Then, towards the end of Acknowledgment, I heard minute
differences in every rim shot Elvin does, something I've never heard
before. Wonderful!
During those 7-8 minutes, the music had completely sucked me in. Or
rather, the sound...I'm overly familiar with the album, and I was
listening specifically for differences in detail and overall
soundstage, so you get my drift. So, what of the soundstage? As with
all SACDs I've heard (at least of good recordings), I had within those
7-8 minutes been gradually immersed in a "3D" sound, even just in
stereo. Each instruments finds its place so much more distinctly than
on any redbook CD I've heard. Note that I say "gradually", though. I
didn't immediately recognize that "3D" quality.
However, I was eager to find out if this was just all in my mind or
really true. I immediately changed to the Deluxe CD version. The
difference was immediately noticeable. Every little bit of that magic
was gone. Thin, dull, flat...not *bad* sounding at all, but every one
of those little minute details that were detectable on the SACD simply
weren't there on the redbook CD, at least not in my setup. So...was
this just a result of, during the course of 7-8 minutes, to
"acclimatize" my ears to the SACD, and "constructing" a soundstage to
fit the music that came from the speakers? The SACD went back in, and
voila! There it was again, immediately! No time needed to "find" the
3D qualities this time. This has led me to somehow think that there is
almost a bit of a "learning" curve to capture all the nuances of DSD.
I think of it as those 3D pictures, where you have to stare at a
seemingly meaningless picture for a while before it finally forms
before you. Before you finally "get" it, you can never believe that
there is a "hidden" 3D image in that incongruous mess of a picture.
Once you do, however, it gets easier every time. But if you haven't
tried it in a while, it's gonna take a little practice to get your
skills back (in my experience, anyway). Simlarly with SACDs, it's hard
to "crack" the code at first, but once you hear the differences that
are there, you'll never look back...
I had similar experiences with In a Silent Way and Gold. I'll only add
that the SACDs have body and character where redbook CDs are lean and
tight-lipped. Now I'm starting to really want a 5.1 setup as well, so
I can enjoy some of the surround mixes I have in my collection (Kind
of Blue, Head Hunters, Mysterious Traveller, In a Silent Way and
Gold...and many more to come!)
interessant point de vue , il faudrait un temps d'adaptation au SACD
pour en decouvrir toutes les subtilites ...
qu'en pensez vous ?
en tout cas ce format me ravit malgre la rarete des titres
love supreme en SACD est dispo sur www.amazon.de
il me semble pour ceux qui ne veulent pas commander aux US
( l'un de mes prochains achats planifies )
desole pour les non- anglophones
essayez un traducteur auto http://world.altavista.com
petit tuyau pour ceux qui cherchent un bon lecteur cd ( pour son prix
)
la Sony 770 est en destockage et vaut ds les 258 euros
( en prime lecteur SACD multicanal )
en vente chez les habituels pousseurs de cartons de la place
parisienne ( IxxxL )