The Super Audio Surround Collection Volume 2 [Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import]

Various (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 1, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD, Import
• Label: Linn
• ASIN: B000GPI2CM
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,073 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #18 in Music > Jazz > Orchestral Jazz
  • #19 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Reeds & Winds > Flute
  • #21 in Music > Classical > Opera & Vocal > Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750)

Track Listings

1. Barangrill (Ian Shaw)

2. Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home (Richard Rodney Bennett)

3. Minor Swing (Martin Taylor)

4. That Old Black Magic (Sarah Moule)

5. I Enjoy Being A Girl (Girl Talk)

6. Who Do You Love? (Barb Jungr)

7. The Meaning Of The Blues (Claire Martin)

8. Little Auk (Haftor Medboe Group)

9. Variations On a Theme of Frank Bridge - Aria Italiana (Scottish Ensemble)

10. Czech Suite - Polka (Scottish Chamber Orchestra)

11. Flute Concerto in G K.313 - Rondo: Tempo di menuetto (Scottish Chamber Orchestra)

12. Fantaisie Impromptu in C# minor, Op.66 (Artur Pizarro)

13. Orrida agli occhi miei (Emma Bell)

14. Overture in C op.1 no.2 Allegro (Concerto Caledonia)

15. Sonata op.5 no.4 in B flat - Allegro (Allison McGillivray)

16. Pieces in D Gigue a la maniere Anglois (William Carter)

17. Lassie wi'the lintwhite locks (Ian Bruce)

Editorial Reviews

Review

The characteristic of a sound system (turntables, amplifiers, loudspeakers) is impossible to measure; there is no such precision instrument. You need a much more sensitive apparatus to achieve this - the human ear. One can hear deviation of a well-known instrument, or a deformation of the stereo soundstage. However, you need a perfect reference recording to execute useful listening tests. This kind of reference CD is available from Linn Records. You now have a new tool with which to test audiophile speakers and sound systems - a hybrid SACD sampler from Linn Records. The music is a mixture of different styles including classical, jazz and folk; the quality of the recordings are excellent. Some virtuoso's debut for the very first time on Linn Records; Emma Bell - the star from La Scala and the Covent Garden, Girl Talk, Ian Shaw - a BBC Jazz Award winner and the outstanding cellist Alison McGillivray. --Instrument Page

Product Description

Import Hybrid-SACD pressing.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Audiophile Surround Sound Hybrid SACD, September 2, 2011

By 

Richard Schwab "Rick" (Monterey, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Super Audio Surround Collection Volume 2 (Audio CD)

This is a fine collection / sampler of music from the Linn Records catalog. Seven of the Seventeen selections are popular music and the remaining nine are classical. Once gets nearly sixty-four minutes of interesting music by a variety of artists recorded in audiophile quality sound. The sound is superb whether listening in 5.1 SACD surround, two-channel SACD or ordinary two-channel stereo on the CD layer. The surround sound tends to be more of the "ambience" style were the main sound is located in the front soundstage and the surrounds add a feeling of the room.

I highly recommend this disc and the whole series of Linn SACD samplers to audiophiles and/or music lovers.