In Reply to: weve been telling SACD fanatics about these documented limitations for a while... posted by NonA on August 25, 2004 at 11:25:20:
Saying one format is better than the other on the basis of theory is kind of dumb when you can listen to the results. I also felt that PCM processing sounded more reasonable than DSD - because of the increased noise with DSD - but the only important thing is how they sound. My current favorite sounding disks are DVD-Audio - Big Phat Bands, Grover Washington's Winelight, and the Steely Dans. Maybe that's partially because DVD-Audio seems to handle surround mix better, in general. But I have to say that the most amazingly lifelike reproduction I've heard of voice and instrument are the vocals of James Taylor in JT and the horns in the Bob Minzer Big Band's Gently - both on SACD. The one disk I have in both formats is the David Sanborn album - and it sounds marginally better in SACD. I know that the difference is greatly affected by how the original was recorded and which players are used for each format, so I don't really draw many conclusions from that. What should be disregarded is someone who has only DVD-A telling us how much better DVD-A is, or someone with only SACD capability telling us how much better SACD is. That is useless information. Both formats are capable of amazing sound.Craig
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Follow Ups
- Not so fast. - Craig Wilson 13:53:29 08/25/04 (7)
- Re: Not so fast. - LiquidMidrange 09:14:23 08/26/04 (0)
- FYI. ive listen to both SACD and DVD-A extensively and so have most others in these forums... - NonA 04:56:24 08/26/04 (5)
- Re: FYI. ive listen to both SACD and DVD-A extensively and so have most others in these forums... - LiquidMidrange 10:55:29 08/26/04 (4)
- isn't this something??! - NonA 11:44:42 08/26/04 (3)
- Re: isn't this something??! - LiquidMidrange 11:58:10 08/26/04 (2)
- Re: isn't this something??! - NonA 12:11:32 08/26/04 (1)
- Re: isn't this something??! - LiquidMidrange 12:56:30 08/26/04 (0)