Why redbook over SACD?

Remember DVD Audio Lol?!!!  Happy listening.   

I just obtained some SACDs from Tower Records in Japan.  Early 1970s recordings  featuring conductor Kurt Sanderling and the Berlin Symphony in symphonies of Sibelius and Shostakovich.  Remixed in analog, then converted to DSD.  I have been streaming the same recordings from what is presumably the high res Redbook layer on the same SACDs.  Both are excellent but the DSD is more detailed.  There is more sweetness to the strings, brass has more oomph, the double basses grounding the sound floor with more solidity.

  I have hundreds of SACDs.  There really is no comparison.  Redbook has improved and vinyl will always have its adherents.

  Sony made DACD difficult as others have noted.  It also became dragged down in a format war and was tied to multichannel.  Most consumers couldn’t be bothered.  Most thought mp3 through 5 dollar Apple buds was all they needed.  Convenience beats quality in our society 

@jazzman7 

There are two separate lasers in the same SACD/CD player/transport.  One for SACD, and another one for CD.  There are also separate circuits attached to those lasers.  One circuit does not effect another, so, I do not believe CD quality is affected by a SACD/CD player or transport.  For example, if the SACD laser stops working, the CD laser will continue to work and play redbook CDs.  The laser assemblies - optical pickup, sled, motors - and the module mounting which is all mechanical functions are packaged into a separate module called a "Traverse Unit".   This traverse unit may or may not be made by the vendor that is making the actual SACD/CD transport/player.  For example, Denon is a major supplier of this Traverse unit. 

Mahler123, I also collect sacd jazz from Venus recordings and esoteric sacd classical and jazz from japan.I also collect SAcds from acoustic sounds. This SAcds  are very close to vynil with my marantz sa10 and Ruby sacd players.

Seems 2024 LP sales were 44 million units, CD 33 million units, SACD 1.4 million units. Looks like CD sales are no longer declining, with a tiny uptick...money numbers are a little different with CD being the least expensive typically...not to mention the discs already owned...