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In Reply to: Re: CD or CD/SACD ??? posted by desmondjim on December 22, 2006 at 07:19:42:
I have a Sony SCAD/CD player and love it. But the great bulk of the SACD titles are and probably will continue to be classical music and, perhaps some "purist" jazz.If those genres aren't to your taste, there's not much point in paying extra for SACD. Even I will admit that the long-term future of the format is in doubt. The question is whether the volume of releases will continue sufficiently to incent manufacturers to continue to build the machines. Right now, everything is still riding on the initial momentum generated by Sony/Phillips' initial push of good machines into the market at attractive prices. These companies launched machines in two waves: the first wave were stereo-only machines and the second wave were multichannel machines. The hope was that, if the audible superiority of SACD wasn't enough to drive the product, then multichannel SACD would. However, multichannel audio still has yet to prove itself as a mainstream commercial product. So, we're back to the question of whether enough people will find SACD sufficiently better than redbook CD to justify buying those discs at a premium and, perhaps, to pay a premium for the extra capabilities of an SACD/CD player.
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