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In Reply to: SACD compared to Vinyl ? posted by CLE on March 13, 2007 at 07:21:40:
At that price point you'll probably prefer vinyl. As you move from there with source components, SACD probably surpasses a comparably priced vinyl front end on most counts. Finally, with a multiformat digital source $5K and up, your RBCD will probably surpass that $2K vinyl front end.
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I have not heard any SACD player that comes upto the same level as an average turntable. Sometimes they're almost there, but more often than not the turntable sends them home with their tails between there legs. A plain jane Music Hall #5 will eat an SCD-1 alive with a better cartridge installed, and things only get better from there.
gary
"A plain jane Music Hall #5 will eat an SCD-1 alive with a better cartridge installed, and things only get better from there."I'll give you that one. But properly modified, by taking out what constricts the capability of the SCD-1, you'll have to spend 4 to 5 times as much as the modified player to get the same quality out of an LP. It is not the technology that compromises SACD's capabilities. It is the compromises made in the clocking and output sections of the players in order to meet certain selling price points in order for the companies to make $$$.
In general you're probably right with mid-priced players. But SACD on a well modded SCD-1 is another animal. By all measures SACD on my modded SCD-1 surpasses my analog system of Lyra Helikon/Graham 1.5tc/VPI TNT III with flywheel/modded Atma-Sphere MP-1 or BAT P10. RBCD is almost a toss-up.
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