Are you willing to buy SACDs?
Jack
new releases (Goldfrapp - Supernature; Depeche
Mode - Playing the Angel) as my next player will
be SACD compatible. I don't care about DVD-A,
since even fewer of them are available.
I am willing to spend say 10% more for them than
for normal CD's, but not much more.
a) Do you think SACD is doomed?
b) Have you listened to a new recording mastered
for SACD from step 1 instead of an old recording
converted for SACD? What was the sound like?
c) What are your thoughts on SACD in general.
Roger Matthews
"Jack" <Ja...@com.com> wrote in message
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You are right about DVD-A it seems to me a blind alley
Well produced SACDs are amazingly good.
My Yamaha amp DSP-AX1 (which cost serious money) does a good job of
recreating room acoutics but SACD is more real and better sounding.
Newly mastered stuff is even more amazing, listen to Dark Side of the Moon
on SACD - you will agree.
I expect SACD will die out shortly since, even though it is grand, most
people don't have (and are not prepared to pay for) decent equpment to
reproduce it on.
I hope I am wrong, but I fear I am not!
Regards, Roger
Stan Buyorbeds
d) can you copy and burn an SACD?
Kalman Rubinson
wrote:
>d) can you copy
only in analog
> and burn an SACD?
No
Not an issue for me since the hybrid CD layer lets me play it
anywhere.
Kal
Jim Lesurf
Jack <Ja...@com.com> wrote:
> I don't own a SACD player now but buy the disks of
> new releases (Goldfrapp - Supernature; Depeche
> Mode - Playing the Angel) as my next player will
> be SACD compatible. I don't care about DVD-A,
> since even fewer of them are available.
> I am willing to spend say 10% more for them than
> for normal CD's, but not much more.
> a) Do you think SACD is doomed?
Yes.
> b) Have you listened to a new recording mastered
> for SACD from step 1 instead of an old recording
> converted for SACD? What was the sound like?
No.
> c) What are your thoughts on SACD in general.
No interest in using it. Seemed mainly an attempt by Philips to maintain a
revenue stream which they have lost as the patent time-limits on CD have
been running out. :-) Also may well have some inherent flaws despite the
marketing hype. Thus I won't weep should it vanish.
Slainte,
Jim
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Kalman Rubinson
<jc...@st-and.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>In article <ejhulq$1g6$1...@ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>,
> Jack <Ja...@com.com> wrote:
>> I don't own a SACD player now but buy the disks of
>> new releases (Goldfrapp - Supernature; Depeche
>> Mode - Playing the Angel) as my next player will
>> be SACD compatible. I don't care about DVD-A,
>> since even fewer of them are available.
>
>> I am willing to spend say 10% more for them than
>> for normal CD's, but not much more.
>
>> a) Do you think SACD is doomed?
>
>Yes.
>
>> b) Have you listened to a new recording mastered
>> for SACD from step 1 instead of an old recording
>> converted for SACD? What was the sound like?
>
>No.
>
>> c) What are your thoughts on SACD in general.
>
>No interest in using it. Seemed mainly an attempt by Philips to maintain a
>revenue stream which they have lost as the patent time-limits on CD have
>been running out. :-) Also may well have some inherent flaws despite the
>marketing hype. Thus I won't weep should it vanish.
Your conclusions are certainly valid considering your lack of exposure
to the medium.
Kal