In Reply to: RE: Hirez Highway used to about SACD sounding great. Now posted by AbeCollins on July 3, 2014 at 09:29:01:
but in the long term, hi-rez (24/92 and above) are listenable for longer. the fact that sacd discs aren't usually found at budget pricing slows ME down a bit and likewise the HR downloads with their added cost factor.
it will take a while for that to normalize. meanwhile, i will listen to a fair number of CDs in that much of what i love is not available on sacd or vinyl. CDs do sound better on sacd players with their upsampling (some more so than others).
i bought into the sacd in the early days hoping they would be encouraged by sales of them which then sold for about the LIST price of CDs and were seen by me as more worth the outlay than paying list for a CD. i did not unload CDs just as i hadn't unloaded LPs when CD became the seeming law of the land.
which brings up the apparent sonic superiority of LP, even if only very slight, over sacd. it is close though.
...regards...tr
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