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In Reply to: Very bad news for SACD . ... CEO of Sony BMG , and president of Sony Music , love DualDisc , ... and so do the CEOs ... posted by ZS KEKL on August 24, 2004 at 23:01:05:
be prepared to be in it for the long run though!
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August-September will be my biggest spree yet for SACD purchases. By the end of September when the Verve JSACDs come out, I will have bought more than 25 titles in two months, including 9 OJCs and 6 RCAs. SACD is dying so slowly I don't know how I'll find time to listen to it all, or find funds to pay off my credit cards.If this is what SACD's death is like, I can hardly wait for the resurrection. I won't be spending a cent on dual disks and neither will millions of other music lovers. The CEOs can either learn that the hard way--possibly losing their jobs in the process--or they can give people exactly what they really want at a decent price without bundling it with crap they don't want and charging a premium. How anyone--even a DVD-A fanatic--can get excited about that prospect is utterly beyond me.
After taking care of our audio reproduction systems, we quickly realize that, as "audiophiles", the bottleneck is the quality of the engineering behind a recording.Ive stopped my component upgrading/tweaking based on this simple realization, and i suspect many on the high resolution forums (SACD and DVD-A) feel the same. The importance of high res reproduction is critical to us, yet we know hires, in its current form(s), will not become a standard, does not encompass the broad works of arts outthere, cannot be obtained cheaply (at the least at the rates at which we buy, and as you note), can not be swapped between different platforms, will not slow down the perilious gains in the low resolution market (MP3, ipods, etc.), and, if anything, this adoption of cheap lowres music will compromise emphasis on well engineered recordings. We are headed striaght into isolation where our choices, however extensive, will remain limited in comparison.
Whatever our stand on the DVD-A and SACD issue, the ones deciding the faith of high res. have found a way to divide and conquer themselves.
In the early days of dualdisk there's always the possibility that the prices will drop once a larger audience buys into it (i know, i know...:-)). Lets hope. It wont help if SACD sticks around as an alternative (and should remain a niche hires format, as noted by others, since it might have found dedicated aging buyers).
my goodness i speel like a $#!%^$. my apologies,now i must get back to some seriously unimportant work.
best.
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