Quality: SACD

Joe Cocker – Joe Cocker! (1969) [2017, Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Joe Cocker - Joe Cocker! (1969) [2017, Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Joe Cocker – Joe Cocker! (1969) [2017, Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.47 GB (ISO) + 1.44 GB (DSF) + 709 MB (FLAC) + 222 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | US | Cat#: AFZ 249 | Genre: Blues Rock, Soul
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

Joe Cocker’s first three A&M albums form the bedrock of a career that spans over three decades. While Cocker certainly wasn’t always in top form during this stretch — thanks to alcohol problems and questionable comeback moves in the ’80s and ’90s — his early records did inform the classic pub rock sound later credited to proto-punk figures like Graham Parker and Brinsley Schwarz. Continue reading “Joe Cocker – Joe Cocker! (1969) [2017, Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Rachel Podger & Christopher Glynn – Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96 (2022) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Rachel Podger & Christopher Glynn - Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96 (2022) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Rachel Podger & Christopher Glynn – Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96 (2022) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Digital Booklet
Total Size: 3.17 GB (ISO) + 9.45 GB (DSF) + 3.71 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Channel Classics | EU | Cat#: CCS SA 44222 | Genre: Classical

Rachel Podger, “the unsurpassed British glory of the baroque violin” (The Times), and Grammy award-winning pianist Christopher Glynn have recorded Beethoven’s Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op. 12 (No.1), Op 24 & Op. 96. The album will be released on March 25, 2022. Continue reading “Rachel Podger & Christopher Glynn – Beethoven Sonatas for Violin and Piano Op.12 No.1, Op.24 & Op.96 (2022) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Hikari Ichihara – Sara Smile (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Hikari Ichihara - Sara Smile (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Hikari Ichihara – Sara Smile (2006) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Total Size: 2.43 GB (ISO) + 2.38 GB (DSF) + 1.10 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Pony Canyon Inc. | Japan | Cat#: PCCY-60003 | Genre: Contemporary Jazz
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Various Artists – Reggae In High-Fi (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Various Artists - Reggae In High-Fi (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Various Artists – Reggae In High-Fi (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.91 GB (ISO) + 2.87 GB (DSF) + 1.35 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | USA | Cat#: AFZ 014 | Genre: Reggae
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

Reggae In High-Fi contains 15 jammin’ selections…the cream of two decades from RAS Records, which is considered the preeminent Reggae label today. These are the real authentic sounds and superstars of Reggae. Featured artists include Black Uhuru, Yellowman, Israel Vibration, Jacob Miller, Freddie McGregor and Gregory Isaacs. Continue reading “Various Artists – Reggae In High-Fi (2003) [Audio Fidelity Remastered, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Chet Atkins – Sails (1987) [2015, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Chet Atkins - Sails (1987) [2015, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Chet Atkins – Sails (1987) [2015, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.86 GB (ISO) + 1.83 GB (DSF) + 836 MB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Sony Music | EU | Cat#: 88875140872 | Genre: Country, Smooth Jazz

Another of Chet Atkins’ attempts to break into the jazz world during his Columbia period, this recording veers well across the line into new age wallowing of the most innocuous kind. At this point in time, when a record opened with soothing ocean waves, followed by a gentle wash of synths, you could pretty much expect the new age to be lapping at your feet throughout Continue reading “Chet Atkins – Sails (1987) [2015, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Aleksey Semenenko & Artem Belogurov – Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas By Previn, Schemmer, Gay (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Aleksey Semenenko & Artem Belogurov - Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas By Previn, Schemmer, Gay (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Aleksey Semenenko & Artem Belogurov – Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas By Previn, Schemmer, Gay (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Digital Booklet
Total Size: 3.35 GB (ISO) + 10.1 GB (DSF) + 3.83 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Bis | EU | Cat#: BIS-2545 SACD | Genre: Classical

On this transatlantic disc, three American composers born during the first half of the last century rub shoulders with two young musicians from Eastern Europe. A member of the BBC New Generation Artists scheme, the violinist Aleksey Semenenko first met the pianist Artem Belogurov at the Stolyarsky Special Music School in Odessa at an early age. Continue reading “Aleksey Semenenko & Artem Belogurov – Crossroads: American Violin Sonatas By Previn, Schemmer, Gay (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Sonny Rollins – Plus 4 (1956) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Sonny Rollins - Plus 4 (1956) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Sonny Rollins – Plus 4 (1956) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.31 GB (ISO) + 1.32 GB (DSF) + 622 MB (FLAC) + 184 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2006 | Genre: Bop, Jazz
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

Sonny Rollins Plus 4 is a jazz album by Sonny Rollins, released in 1956 on Prestige Records. On this album Rollins plays with the Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet. The album was the last recording including pianist Richie Powell and Brown, as both died in a car accident three months later. Continue reading “Sonny Rollins – Plus 4 (1956) [2002, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits (1970) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remaster, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits (1970) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remaster, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits (1970)
[2015, Audio Fidelity Remaster, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 371 MB (CD-Layer) + 3.05 GB (ISO) + 5.68 GB (DSF) + 2.28 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity Remaster | US | Cat#: AFZ5 215 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Soul, Funk
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Released in 1970 during the stopgap between Stand! and There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Greatest Hits inadvertently arrived at precisely the right moment, summarizing Sly & the Family Stone’s joyous hit-making run on the pop and R&B charts. Technically, only four songs here reached the Top Ten, with only two others hitting the Top 40, but judging this solely on charts is misleading, since this is simply a peerless singles collection Continue reading “Sly & The Family Stone – Greatest Hits (1970) [2015, Audio Fidelity Remaster, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (1973) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender (1973) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (1973)
[2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.63 GB (ISO) + 1.60 GB (DSF) + 812 MB (FLAC) + 296 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2080 | Genre: Jazz Rock, Blues Rock
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

A hopelessly misunderstood record in its time by Santana fans — they were still reeling from the radical direction shift toward jazz on Caravanserai and praying it was an aberration — it was greeted by Santana devotees with hostility, contrasted with kindness from major-league critics like Robert Palmer. Continue reading “Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu John McLaughlin – Love Devotion Surrender (1973) [2011, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Santana – Santana (1969) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Santana - Santana (1969) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Santana – Santana (1969) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.56 GB (ISO) + 1.51 GB (DSF) + 763 MB (FLAC) + 245 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2151 | Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Latin Rock
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

Before the arrival of Carlos Santana’s eponymous band, the San Francisco rock scene drew the inspiration for its jam-oriented music mainly from blues, rock, and Eastern modalities. Santana added Latin music to the mix, forever changing the course of rock & roll history. On their groundbreaking debut album, the group mix Latin percussion with driving rock grooves. Continue reading “Santana – Santana (1969) [2016, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Nat King Cole – Welcome To The Club (1959) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Nat King Cole - Welcome To The Club (1959) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Nat King Cole – Welcome To The Club (1959)
[2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Image + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 1.30 GB (ISO) + 1.28 GB (DSF) + 604 MB (FLAC) + 310 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Audio Fidelity | US | Cat#: AFZ 153 | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

As the 1950s came to a close, Nat King Cole (vocals/piano) continued creating stylish renditions of pop and jazz flavored standards. On Welcome to the Club (1959) the artist teams up with Dave Cavanaugh and the Count Basie combo — minus the maestro himself due to contractual restraints — for one of Cole’s most powerful collections supported by a big band. In fact, it is Cole’s unmistakable ultra-cool intonations that flawlessly reign in the fiery — and at times overbearing — ensemble arrangements. Continue reading “Nat King Cole – Welcome To The Club (1959) [2013, Audio Fidelity Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Tony Bennett – Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Tony Bennett - Playin' With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Tony Bennett – Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 3.29 GB (ISO) + 9.34 GB (DSF) + 3.87 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: RPM Records / Columbia | Cat#: CS 85833 | Genre: Vocal Jazz
Update: DSF Tracks have been added

Tony Bennett’s latter-day albums tend to have themes, and this one has two, as indicated by its double-barreled title: It is both a duets album and a blues album. The duet partners include ten singers who range from his recent touring partners Diana Krall and k.d. lang to fellow veterans Ray Charles, B.B. King, and Kay Starr, and younger, but still mature pop stars Stevie Wonder, Bonnie Raitt, and Billy Joel. Continue reading “Tony Bennett – Playin’ With My Friends: Bennett Sings the Blues (2001) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Members of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Fréderick Franssen – Horn Concertos (2022) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Members of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Fréderick Franssen - Horn Concertos (2022) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Members of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Fréderick Franssen – Horn Concertos (2022)
[Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Digital Booklet
Total Size: 3.08 GB (ISO) + 9.04 GB (DSF) + 3.69 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Challenge Classics | Austria | Cat#: CC 72904 | Genre: Classical

Fréderick Franssen: From among the enormous choice of horn repertoire available in the early stages of my study of the instrument, my interest was piqued by the very earliest horn music. The music from that era did and still does exert its magic on me due to the pure beauty of its clear and transparent sound world. Continue reading “Members of Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Fréderick Franssen – Horn Concertos (2022) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Klingzeug Barockensemble – Memento Mori: Remember You Must Die (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Klingzeug Barockensemble - Memento Mori: Remember You Must Die (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Klingzeug Barockensemble – Memento Mori: Remember You Must Die (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF-Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Stereo & Multichannel | Digital Booklet
Total Size: 2.62 GB (ISO) + 7.93 GB (DSF) + 3.25 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Bis | Sweden | Cat#: BIS 2566 SACD | Genre: Classical

The phrase memento mori has its origins in classical antiquity, but the injunction to remember one’s own mortality has been a feature of different cultures and religions throughout the ages; just as death is universal, so is our need to adjust to this fact, and to consider our lives with it in mind. The arts are, and have been, an important means in helping us to do so, which is why the laments gathered on this album speak to us all. Continue reading “Klingzeug Barockensemble – Memento Mori: Remember You Must Die (2021) [Hi-Res SACD Rip]”

Miles Davis – ‘Four’ & More – Recorded Live In Concert (1966) [2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis - 'Four' & More - Recorded Live In Concert (1966) [2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]

Miles Davis – ‘Four’ & More – Recorded Live In Concert (1966)
[2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]
SACD-ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
DSF Tracks / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz
FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
CD-Layer / EAC Rip / FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.24 GB (ISO) + 2.21 GB (DSF) + 1.08 GB (FLAC) + 348 MB (CD-Layer) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | US | Cat#: UDSACD 2087 | Genre: Hard Bop, Modal
Update: CD-Layer & DSF Tracks have been added

In an odd bit of programming, Columbia placed the ballads from Miles Davis’ February 12, 1964, concert on My Funny Valentine and the uptempo romps on this LP. Davis, probably a bit bored by some of his repertoire and energized by the teenage Tony Williams’ drumming, performed many of his standards at an increasingly faster pace as time went on. These versions of “So What,” “Walkin’,” “Four,” “Joshua,” “Seven Steps to Heaven,” and even “There Is No Greater Love” are remarkably rapid, with the themes quickly thrown out before Davis Continue reading “Miles Davis – ‘Four’ & More – Recorded Live In Concert (1966) [2013, MFSL Remastered, CD-Layer + Hi-Res SACD Rip]”