@kraftwerkturbo Octave Records has a DSD recorder and records and sells obscure, minimalist albums that you can sample (low res) before you purchase their downloads or other media.
https://www.octavedsdstudio.com/
CD vs SACD in STEREO
I started to listen to SACD to enjoy the 5.1 format.
I thought SACD is exclusively used for that purpose.
Today read discussion about sound quality of new/modern/ "better" CD vs Streaming vs vinyl vs SACD, where the SACD apparently was referrung to STEREO SACD.
On a 'numbers' basis, what is the difference between CD and SACD (assume same player, etc)?
@kraftwerkturbo Octave Records has a DSD recorder and records and sells obscure, minimalist albums that you can sample (low res) before you purchase their downloads or other media. https://www.octavedsdstudio.com/ |
Most of my SACDs sound better than the CD version, but the biggest difference in SQ seems to be who did the recording/mixing/mastering/re-mastering. Enough differences that I mentally grade the SQ of every album I listen to as class A, B, C or D. Fortunately, most are class B or A. A few are class C, and a very few class D. |
@audioisnobiggie Just curious: what do you connect your solid state source into? I have SACD player with HDMI out, so that is the convential way (and never thought of anything else). And next, since the original source is a DISC (SACD), how to you get it from the disc to your solid state device, weather it is usb stick, SD card o SSD drive? Someone once mentioned and described a process to rip SACD to a file, but that was so discombobulated that I discarded the idea right away. Is there by now a 'one click, free' SACD rip solution from my HDMI player to my harddrive? |
I have a Marantz SACD 30n player, and listen to two-channel stereo only. For me, it depends of the source for the CD or SACD as to what sounds better. If the source is an analogue tape, then the SACD will convey more of what is on that tape than a CD will. I have a particular RCA SACD of Rubinstein playing Chopin and a CD of the same. The SACD has much more information. On the other hand, I just got a SACD of Gunter Wand conducting the Berlin Philharmonic playing the Bruckner Symphony no. 9, recorded digitally in the 1990s. I also have a CD version. They sound pretty much the same. |