In Reply to: I may be missing something ... but posted by TBone on February 21, 2002 at 12:11:36:
HowdyLet me rephrase again, when I listened to DSD on a SACD player I realized that redbook on any of my devices sucked! In fact it sucked less on the SACD player than on any other device in my system.
My SACD induced upgrade spiral:
I then bought an outboard DAC for my jukeboxes, that wasn't good enough; I got the DAC modified, it was better and I could enjoy many of my CD's from my jukebox as well as from the SACD player.
At this point I was on a quest for better sound overall, DSD had hinted at the potential. I upgraded my speakers and my cables. Nice, but some things still had a harshness around the med to hi-freqs. I upgraded my integrated amp. Cool now almost everything sounded good most of the time. I got my SACD player(s) modified. I worked on the power and digital cables. Now everything sounded good all of the time. I could now hear more detail in the cracks of the music, so I upgraded my interconnects. Now everything sounds pretty darned good all of the time.
Low and behold my CD's don't suck anymore. I was suprised. But after hearing Black Mamba's I'm going to upgrade my power cords again :)
It's still my experience that my Abe's view of SACD is wrong. SACD has payed off for me in that redbook sounds much better. But its still the case that SACD is more enjoyable than I ever knew recorded music could be.
-Ted
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Follow Ups
- I've been trying to correct your facts :) - Ted Smith 12:31:36 02/21/02 (11)
- got it ... - TBone 12:55:21 02/21/02 (10)
- It's a matter of priority and value judgement... - AbeCollins 22:52:07 02/21/02 (9)
- "get fine sounding music from my entire CD collection" - Stephen 16:53:15 02/23/02 (2)
- OK, I get fine sounding music from *most* of my CD collection... - AbeCollins 22:02:18 02/24/02 (1)
- I'm sorry too, Abe . . . . - dkb 21:24:38 03/01/02 (0)
- The realization will hit you too one day! (nt) - Stephen 22:22:56 02/24/02 (0)
- Does Abe listen to a lot of classical music? - DkB 21:22:08 03/01/02 (0)
- Couldn`t agree more Abe - when the dust... - chris.redmond2@bushinternet.com 11:37:54 02/23/02 (0)
- Re: It's a matter of priority and value judgement... - RFM 01:26:25 02/23/02 (2)
- geez - what crap ... - TBone 06:42:06 02/25/02 (0)
- Re: It's a matter of priority and value judgement... - AbeCollins 16:45:08 02/24/02 (0)
- Well said. (nt) - Jack G 13:15:21 02/22/02 (0)
- Hey Abe ... - TBone 07:51:16 02/22/02 (0)