Are SACD's too sparkly on top or do I not know what neutral is?

[caesar]

Are SACD's too clean and sparkly on top or do I not know what neutral is after listening to live music for many years in crappy rooms and, of course, listening to redbook?

 

[mep]

I don't understand how you can have "clean and sparkly" at the same time. Either way, your definition doesn't sound like any DSD I have heard.

 

[dingus]

'sparkly' is a term i would associate more with a speakers character and\or placement.

 

[Andre Marc]

Clean and sparkly? I don't think so. I think true DSD SACDs are the best digital I have heard.

If anything super smooth and organic on top.

 

[LenWhite]

Clean and sparkly? I don't think so. I think true DSD SACDs are the best digital I have heard.

If anything super smooth and organic on top.

As always the original recording and mastering are the key element, but all things being equal SACD's in addition to your description are more open and full bodied.

 

[Lee]

Clean and sparkly? I don't think so. I think true DSD SACDs are the best digital I have heard.

If anything super smooth and organic on top.

My experience exactly. Well said Andre.

 

[Andre Marc]

My experience exactly. Well said Andre.

Thanks Lee.

 

[Lee]

Thanks Lee.

You are welcome.

 

[caesar]

Gentleman,

Just came back from live show. Maybe it's the glasses and alcohol bottles at the bar, and the treble didn't sound as perfect as on SACD.

 

[Phelonious Ponk]

There's no such thing as "too clean." Sparkly could be any number of subtle distortion masquerading as high end detail (though I usually associate this with tweeters myself). Lord knows there's enough noise hiding out on SACDs, but, like everything else they hold that's not on Redbook, it's supposed to be out of the audible range.

It was probably the bar.

Tim