A word of warning on SACD use.

Posted by sser2 (A) on April 3, 2007 at 12:39:35

I am sure this topic came up before, but I believe it won't hurt to post it once again. This comes from my painful experience.

SACDs are EXTREMELY vulnerable to surface damage! Fingerprints, dust, barely visible scratches may make a disk unplayable. Sometimes a defect will show as SACD layers failing to play, other times it is frustrating stops during SACD playback. Regular CDs can stand probably 100 times more abuse! In most cases, washing a disc does not help. The surface of a SACD may look perfect, but it won't play well.

Bad SACD puts a lot of strain on players pickup mechanism. You can hear the mechanism working hard for quite a long time trying to read a bad disk. Hence sled motor and optical pickup problems.

Bottom line:

Exercise great care handling your SACDs. Put them in their hard cases immediately after playing. Don't use soft CD pouches. Make sure the case itself is not damaged. Don't play a SACD in a car. Don't give a SACD to a friend to listen. Don't allow your family members (esp. teenagers) to play SACDs unless you are sure they will treat the discs exactly the way you do. And finally, never buy used SACDs unless you can test play them.

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Topic - A word of warning on SACD use. - sser2 12:39:35 04/03/07 (17)

Your final warning is a bunch of baloney - madisonears 20:32:21 04/04/07 (0)

Totally Agree ! - Audio Pharaoh 06:02:21 04/04/07 (1)

Re: Totally Agree ! - Jos Callinet 15:13:57 04/08/07 (0)

Player Versus Software Issue - Robertc88 05:48:33 04/04/07 (5)

"3 layers on some of these SACD discs" - Metralla 08:01:47 04/04/07 (4)

Re: "3 layers on some of these SACD discs" - Robertc88 10:27:00 04/04/07 (3)

There are only two layers on a hybrid disc - racerguy 15:55:24 04/04/07 (2)

Re: There are only two layers on a hybrid disc - Robert C. Lang 09:55:00 04/07/07 (0)

Thanks - Metralla 21:19:57 04/04/07 (0)

Never one problem in 5.5 years! (Knock on wood...). nt - oldmkvi 16:38:26 04/03/07 (2)

Re: Never one problem in 5.5 years! (Knock on wood...). nt - Robert C. Lang 16:55:18 04/03/07 (1)

High Density- that's what I think-No room for error. My - oldmkvi 17:37:14 04/03/07 (0)

Which player? - Perigo 16:36:34 04/03/07 (1)

I have 3, all Sony. - sser2 17:20:29 04/03/07 (0)

Transports differ - Metralla 13:08:59 04/03/07 (2)

Re: Transports differ - Robert C. Lang 15:56:25 04/03/07 (1)

Re: Transports differ - Doug Otte 07:55:39 04/04/07 (0)

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