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It looks like a CD. It plays on all your CD players. But this Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) is much, much more. Created by Sony and Philips “ the people who invented the CD“ this is actually a two-layer disc. And both layers pack an incredible story.

From the earliest digital recordings and 16-bit Compact Disc on up to even the latest 24-bit recordings, digital audio has always used multi-bit PCM technology. Until now. Now there is Direct Stream Digital recording. A one bit system that´s fundamentally different. Thanks to an amazing 2,822,400 samples per second, you get audio performance that no other format can deliver. Where CD frequency response extends to 20,000 Hz, DSD technology can theoretically reach 100,000 Hz. Where CD has a dynamic range of 96 dB, DSD recording can achieve 120 dB across the entire audible range. Thanks to DSD technology, the SACD difference is breathtaking. If you care passionately about music, then SACD will inflame that passion as never before.

Even the SACD´s 16-bit layer can sound better, if it´s based on a Direct Stream Digital or an analogue studio master. The Super Bit Mapping Direct process can be used to down-convert to the 16-bit CD format, which enables you to hear more of the original master.

So by all means, enjoy this disc on a standard CD player. But for an unforgettable audio experience, you have really got to hear it on a new Super Audio CD player.

The Opus 3 label needs no introduction to most audiophiles as this Swedish company has been around for a long time - issuing high quality performances with amazing sound to appeal not only to the audiophile among us, but to music collectors as well.

This listing is for a rare audiophile Hybrid SACD title - a USED / OPENED, in EXCELLENT plus overall condition Hybrid SACD (can be played on all types of CD players) PRESSED and ISSUED by Opus 3 Music of a highly collectible title from the Opus 3 catalog, featuring -

Lars Erstrand

Performers Include -

Lars Erstrand, vibraphone
Ove Lind, clarinet
Danny Moss, tenor saxophone
Bob Barnard, cornet
Kjell O™hman, Knud Jorgensen, Jan Lundgren, Rolf Larsson, piano
Tommy Johnson, double bass
Leif "Gus" Dahlberg, Pelle Hulte‚n, Ronnie Gardiner, drums

Hybrid SACD Title -

SWINGCERELY YOURS -

The Best of Lars Erstrand 1983 - 1995

Track Listing -

1. Gladys
2. Concerto d'Aranjuez
3. Reunion Blues
4. Too Good to Be True
5. Body and Soul
6. The Rabbit Jumps
7. Stompin' at the Savoy
8. I Must Have That Man
9. Avalon
10. East of the Sun
11. Sweet Georgia Brown
12. Old Folks
13. One for the Woofer
14. Don't Take Your Love from Me
15. It's the Talk of the Town
16. Small Fry

The Hybrid SACD is from the rare OPUS 3 Music series of audiophile HYBRID Multichannel SACDs.
  • Hybrid SACD catalog # CD 22081
  • Hybrid SACD - plays on all SACD and CD players
  • Hybrid SACD made in GERMANY
  • Hybrid SACD issued in 2008

The Hybrid SACD, JEWEL CASE AND INSERTS are all in excellent overall condition. The disc does have a few light marks on the reflective side, but nothing serious. We play tested this item on our audio system and it performed FLAWLESSLY!

This CD is an audiophile quality pressing (any collector of fine MFSL, half speeds, direct to discs, Japanese/UK pressings etc., can attest to the difference a quality pressing can make to an audio system).

Do not let this rarity slip by!