CD vs SACD in STEREO

@richardbrand 

@lordmelton 

I need @lewm to translate the Japanese, but it cannot be a Redbook CD.

There's no denying that silver disks can hold 24-bit PCM - Pure Audio Blu-ray can and Digital Versatile Disks should.  But 24-bit is also a bit of a con, owing its existence to computers having pretty much standardised on 8-bit bytes.  In reality, you would be lucky to find a dac that can resolve 21-bits.

I originally bought SACDs, a quarter century ago, for multi channel but while I still have a MC setup most of my SACD listening is 2 channel.  My Oppo 105 outputs DSD over HDMI into the HDMI input on my Bryston DAC 3.

We were cleaning rugs upstairs yesterday, and my upstairs 2 channel listening room was off limits for the day, so for the first time in a while I spent several hours in the Man Cave listening to multichannel SACDs.  I listen to classical and as an earlier poster stated the rears in a 5.1 are primarily for ambience, reflections, etc.  The pop records that I have played in 5.1 sound so much more gimmicky in their effects

I love blue meters and atmos.the new processors top of line marantz,dennon trinov,spelling, all sound great.more music is being recorded in that format. The new pink floyd is in surround format.how many times can we remarket that dark side of the moon. And you are correct sound is all around us and not just in stero this is how the ear,brain processes it. We have trained our brain for stero for decades. My surround is better than the theater so I don't get to buy 20$ popcorn anymore. Again I have several sacd players but few sacds.enjoy the dopamine in music as well, listen after  all music calms the savage beast.