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SACD bombed very, very badly - one suggestion why

VERY few people have heard about SACD and even fewer understand or care what it is about.

So who does that leave who are interested -> nutters like us. BUT here is the rub. The Sony obsession with copying has made modding DACs to improve upon DSD virtually impossible, so we are left with the commercial machines which vary from the very ordinary to the very good.

However, even the very good ones (and the Esoteric UX-1 here is put in that category) do not extract the potential of DSD. I would not argue that DSD could sound better than redbook PCM. The fact that it does not do so here reflects the very good DAC in the Esoteric vs the outstanding modded DAC 1 which is used here for CDs etc.

And I'm a fan of surround sound, but that does NOT have to be via multi channel SACD or DVD-A. A good processor can simulate very satisfying ambience from 2CH. Been there, done that for decades now.

John

Do not criticise the idiots in this world - we need them as they make the rest of us look so much better :-)

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