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In Reply to: Q for Micahel Bishop posted by hifitommy on March 3, 2007 at 09:21:59:
Well for one thing, it still cost 4x to 6x to make hybrid discs as it does to make single layer CD discs. For another thing, some players have trouble reading hybrids. For another thing, the original master recording may not have been done in "DSD". Finally, the authoring costs to make the SACD master are significantly higher than for CD.Pretty much the same reasons that none of the major labels routinely released hybrid discs.
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i posted that question some 6 months ago and mr.bishop was kind enough to reply.His answer..COST,COST,COST.but i wonder now,with the demise of Tower record,Telarc classical volume has to have taken a hit. is cost efficiency still a factor with sales volume lower?????
I know that there's been a lot of buzz on this forum about SACD players having trouble playing hybrids, but I don't recall any talk about regular CD players having difficulies with them.Is this common?
< < Is this common? > >A hybrid disc has a semi-transparent SACD layer halfway through the disc and a reflective CD layer at the top surface. To read the CD layer, the laser has to travel through the semi-transparent layer twice. This obviously will degrade the signal to some degree.
I don't know how common it is for CD-only players to have problems like this, but it does happen to some degree.
Another problem is that some DVD players and DVD computer drives will see the SACD layer first and think that a DVD disc has been inserted. But it can't read the "DSD" information, so it just gives an error message and spits the disc back out.
Pentatone issues all its discs, both new recordings and remasters, as SACD hybrid only. Channel Classics issues all its new recordings (with one or two exceptions) as SACD hybrid only. While the cost for these SACDs is more than some companies charge for CDs, they are no more expensive than some smaller outfits like Hyperion are charging for CDs. So apparently a profit can be made selling only hybrid SACDs, although this model might fail with popular music.
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has done it, seems like costs would go down in short order if only hybrids were offered.i sure hope michael can ansewer this more adequately.
...regards...tr
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thimgs must have changed if chesky can do it now.
...regards...tr
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