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SACD WINS!

I advise all those who have spent time researching or trashing SACD to visit www.stereophile.com and learn what the industry is talking about todat at the Consumer Electronics Show in LasVegas. Here is a short portion or the current artical "Record labels strongly support the format. More than 235 SACD titles are now available, encompassing "all types of music by major artists," in Demuynck's words, "and all of [it] compatible with existing CD players. We believe in exponential growth for the SACD hybrid." The SACD-1000 should appear in showrooms toward the end of January. At the Philips conference, no mention was made of DVD-Audio, a promising format that seemed to be missing in action so far at CES, at least on the day before the Show officially opens."

Jadem6 (System | Reviews | Threads | Answers | This Thread)

01-06-01

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01-06-01 Jadem6 probably still too early to say however i would agree ... Ben_campbell

01-07-01 235 sacd titles? can someone point me to a comprehensive li ... Kkirkpa@

01-07-01 Try music direct www.amusicdirect.com and elusive disk http: ... Jadem6

01-07-01 Music direct, acoustic sounds, are two good sources. sacd is ... Zane

01-07-01 I agree. i can't see the industry giving up a 2.8 million/s ... Tmartinjr@

01-07-01 Sacd does not have more resolution than 24/96 material or ev ... Dustin@

01-07-01 Dustin, sounds like sacd puts up back to the days of 78's an ... Tmartinjr@

01-08-01 Sacd sounds better than most cds because the technology used ... Dustin@

01-08-01 P.s. the resolution of a system is easily calculated. for p ... Dustin@

01-08-01 Sacd still has roughly 5 bits of resolution at 100khz while ... Dustin@

01-08-01 Yawn! all i know as a peon guy who loves music is sacd sound ... Jadem6

01-08-01 Sacd has hit first, and that means it has hit twice. never m ... Joe_coherent

01-09-01 Joe, have you taken any of the current players home? the s90 ... No_money

01-09-01 I just returned from ces and can tell you this: (1) there we ... Cornfedboy

01-10-01 Fyi. i just mail ordered 2 sacd's from hmv.com from canada. ... Tmartinjr@

01-11-01 Just wondering where you came up with the number of sacd rel ... Mylesbastor

01-11-01 The above is a quote direct from an artical at the stereophi ... Jadem6

01-11-01 I also read a review of ces somewhere that stated that there ... Tmartinjr@

01-11-01 Hmmm...it's interesting since the sacd catalog given out by ... Mylesbastor

01-15-01 Just this past saturday (1-13) i was in harmony house record ... Tomryan

01-16-01 I went in tower records in fairfax virginia. i asked if tha ... Tmartinjr@

01-16-01 I buy sacd's from tower records downtown chicago whenever i ... Mikeam

01-18-01 I hope the sacd medium takes off, i have a player and think ... Mes

01-30-01 Another reality check. i was in dearborn music (a lagr inde ... Tomryan

01-30-01 You may well be right. it's a shame that the format isn't ge ... Jadem6

01-31-01 I have never heard sacd or dvd audio. does it have the warm ... Perfectimage

01-31-01 Perfectimage: sacd, to my ears, certainly has the smoothnes ... Rcprince

01-31-01: Jadem6
Oh perfectimage, such a loaded question. I don't know what this will bring but here goes. NO, nothing is like vinyl. I say that with all respect of the quality of sound one finds with a "good" set-up. SACD is clearly different, but is much closer to vinyl than digital. SACD is it's own experience. Fantastic smooth, liquid highs. The slam of the base, and the pinpoint detail in the base is far different than vinyl. Midrange is as Rcprince so well detailed, closer to the tapes, wich tend to be dryer. I've found the SACD to be very very special. I quit listening to the vinyl once my player had over 300 hours. (I must admit I'm a digital fan from the '80s, so take my opinion as what it is, slanted) The depth and layering of the soundstage is very detailed. On Duke Ellingtons "Blues in Orbit" (a new favorite) the band is up front and immediate, the back up musicians are well behond on each side with each player defined. The studio is very much a part of this disk. SACD has proven to be excellant at discerning the enviromental information and creating the space. On Jacintha "Autumn Leaves" the color in her voice and the insturments are lovely. There is an air that completely incompasses the source. Color, my systm produces color within the tones. These are a crude attempt to discribe a feeling that is purly SACD, not digital and not vinyl.
I believe the quality of reproduction dollar for dollar my go the SACD. If you are talking altimate sound reproduction, cost what it my be, VINYL still wins, but not by much. J.D. (P.S. sorry my spelling sucks)
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01-31-01 Excellent post, jadem6. i can second all of his observation ... Rcprince

01-31-01 Thanks to both rcprince and jadem6 for their eloquent statem ... Trelja

02-01-01 While sacd is clearly solid from a technology point of view, ... Ccerny@