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In Reply to: Many say SACDs are just a marketing trick posted by Robert C. Lang on December 15, 2006 at 13:35:07:
I was only referring to the Supreme Jazz SACDs, not the Membran classical titles, which contain licensed recordings.If you observe the jazz reissue market, you will understand that these Membran releases cannot come from original tape sources.
The recordings come from various labels (mainly Fantasy and EMI) and are almost all in the public domain in Europe (more than 50 years old). The few that are not in the public domain have been floating around on bootlegs previously. The pattern is that Membran chose recordings from big name artists which do not need to be licensed. But that means they have to find their own sources for the releases, as they have no access to the master tapes owned by the original labels. Most public domain reissue labels simply dub the music from existing CDs and create their own CD compilations. That is legit as long as the recordings are out of copyright.
Under these conditions, releasing this stuff on SACD does not make sense from a technical point of view. But the number of times these discs get mentionned in audiophile forums ("Finally: Sinatra on SACD!!!" etc) shows that the marketing aspect is successful.
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