Why redbook over SACD?

(Sarcasm alert…with a touch of irony and truth…)

“The two things that really drew me to vinyl (or interchange with SACD) were the expense and the inconvenience.” Alex Gregory

@hjdca Well I am glad you like Qobuz.  I find it to be NOT user friendly.  Sound quality reminds me of my struggles with RtoR.  That is to say, it can be wonderful until it goes silent for a bit, or just drops in level or up and down.  Some days it is good, some days not so much.  I hard wired it, that helped, but I like music that isn't streamed and that is something nobody can do anything about.  I wish I could say it is a near miss, but in my case it is not even close to hitting my requirements.  I talk to my son and grand children and completely understand why streaming works for them.  Oddly enough they completely understand why it does not work so well for me.  One of my favorite people is Mark Twain who said difference is what makes horse races.

Just MHO, SONY killed BETA, LaserVison and so far has put two bullets in the back of the head of SACD. They don't care, if you don't pay, you don't play. 

@billstevenson 

I agree you have to have a top notch internet and ethernet, otherwise, Qobuz streaming is not worth a hill of beans...  Also during pime time, like saturday night, you need to have subsribed to more bandwidth than you actually need because the internet providers will take your bandwidth to support other households...   That is usually when drop outs occur...   Qobuz servers can also slow down during prime time.  I also went through all these issues. but. decided to solve them one by one.   At any rate, I wholeheartedly agree that you need to keep the ability to play your vinyl, CDs, SACDs, and media files.  Note:  I also still have a land line phone, lol... 

@hjdca 

transports have an issue that they cannot just output the DSD layer through a standard Digital out connection without violating copywrite

Far from my experience of buying and playing SACDs over 25 years on Marantz and Reavon players and an ultra-affordable Sony transport.  I have never had any issue with a standard Digital out (er, that is HDMI). 

If you are thinking I2S, it was never designed as a digital connection except between two chips on a board, is not a standard, can only handle two-channels and performs neither error detection nor error correction.

I simply cannot fathom why North Americans never really 'got' SACD.  Last time I looked, Presto had over 6000 classical SACDs listed for sale, new.

Streaming cannot get close to the digital rates required for SACD and Pure Audio Blu-ray