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Holst: The Planets - Martin | John Broggio - June 29, 2025

The rear cover is shown on the JPC listing as being MCH/Stereo.

Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Karajan | John Broggio - July 4, 2025

I suspect the execs looked at how much (lo-fi) LP re-releases go for and thought they'd create another slice of the action.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 - Storgårds | breydon_music - July 6, 2025

Chandos' commitment to SACD is reflected in the scheduling in the next couple of months of a John Wilson 2-disc set of "My Fair Lady" and another instalment in Gardner's ...

Holst: The Planets - Martin | Stadlbauer Dietmar - Today 02:18 pm

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/holst-the-planets-deborah-cheetham-fraillon-earth/hnum/12234162 Follow this link and you will know, this is a mchannel SACD

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 - Storgårds | Scott A. - July 2, 2025

Heard from Chandos that the next up (after the 1st/3rd CD in August) will be the 2nd/5th early next year. That one will be on SACD, and in surround.

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 - Storgårds | hiredfox - Today 06:22 am

For completeness I asked ChatGTP to provide an up-date on SACD pressing plants; There are currently three pressing plants worldwide still manufacturing SACD discs as of ...

John Coltrane Quartet: Crescent | Ben Leggett - July 7, 2025

I adore this album, and usually like Analogue Production mastering jobs - but this release is unfortunately no more dynamic (and a touch more loudly mastered) than my 2008 ...

Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 - Noseda | BrianE - June 30, 2025

Distortion/clipping on the right channel at 8m8s in the first movement on both the RBCD and stereo SACD layers; if it's from the recording itself, it sounds like something was ...

Nicki Parrott: After Midnight