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Re: The difference between SACD and really great redbook

Sordidman wrote:
"What to do? Buy a nice $3K retail SACD machine used, and pick up a nice DAC like the Stello, Audio Note, or Benchmark...Putting a Stello DAC along with the Marantz SA11, improves the crappy redbook on that player enormously..."

Excatly my strategy (as it turned out) with the Sony SCD-1 and the MF Tri-Vista. While I wouldn't call the SCD-1's red book performance "crappy," adding the Tri-Vista gave me what I feel to be the best of both worlds in that budget range: sweet, detailed, dimensional red book, and rich, robust, easy-on-the-ears SACD. I would not have been happy in the long run with the SCD-1 asa red book player.

That said, I don't believe in any kind of intentional "downgrading" of the redbook sections of SACD players.



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