I buy more cds from amazon now than I did 20 or 30 years ago. Cheap and lovely.
@StringerNews1
6 жыл бұрын
Same here. I even find rare, out of print ones there.
@brianmoore581
6 жыл бұрын
Yep. Me, too. Lot's of rare stuff you never see at even the best semi-local stores. You can get some rare stuff on Ebay, too, usually cheap. I kind of miss the hours I used to hang out in the record store trying to decide what to buy this time. Kind of. Well, maybe not. They were too expensive anyway.
@JohnMorris-ge6hq
6 жыл бұрын
thegrimyeaper Nothing wrong with 16/44.1 if done right. Check out any CD before the loudness war - Fantastic.
@brianmoore581
6 жыл бұрын
John Morris even a lot of the newer stuff is wonderfully recorded. Most of the stuff that I've found over the years with squashed dynamic range is popular radio music. Other genres, at least what I have purchased, seem to have been largely immune to such atrocities.
@brpadington
3 жыл бұрын
Same here.
@alext2933
6 жыл бұрын
The slow take up of SACD is a real shame and waste of a great opportunity. I love physical media.
@oysteinsoreide4323
4 жыл бұрын
The reason that it never became popular was that people really wanted downloadable files aka mp3 or similar. The problem is that most people are more than content with the mp3 sound quality. They could not care less about a format that is better than CD. But one of the most important problems with SACD was the licensing of the format. Sony has been too greedy with this one. They made the format because they couldn't get money for their CD patent anymore. Had they made an open format, maybe it had been more popular.
@mrfrosty3
3 жыл бұрын
I think MQA was created for the sole purpose of generating revenue, I have no problem with making money but the creation of MQA was not to overcome some problem that was preventing music from reaching people's ears. The addition of a corresponding light on audio gear to show that MQA is being received is a stroke of genius from a purely business point of view. A listener doesn't get anything that cannot be provided by existing formats but it is possible to check you are getting what you paid for with those formats. MQA has a little colored light that appears to make people think they're getting what they paid for when they may not be.
@aussie8114
3 жыл бұрын
Should start a business fitting little blue LEDs to amps that come on when you power up. $320 sounds good. The user can get a happy feeling knowing they’re listening to something special 🔵
@PatDoyle
2 жыл бұрын
I agree with your thoughts on MQA. To me, it is a solution in search of a problem. Who has issues with audio bandwidth exceeding their available internet bandwidth?
@ThinkingBetter
2 жыл бұрын
MQA is dead. It's a lossy PCM compression format and nowadays serious audiophile consumers in most places can easily get internet fast enough to not bother with lossy compressed formats such as MQA. DSD-64 is inferior to 192kHz 24 bits streamed lossless on Amazon HD Music and the convenience is hugely better on a modern lossless streaming service. DSD is dead because it doesn't allow any level of modern audio processing and reality is that modern DACs aren't even using pure sigma delta in the conversion making the argument of staying in sigma-delta conversion in both end of the signal chain a lie.
@user-od9iz9cv1w
2 жыл бұрын
IMHO, all it does is provide hi res music with a smaller foot print. Guess what. I have gigabit fibre to my home. File size is not a reason for me to invest in a niche recording format. Give me a well mastered PCM CD. I'm happy. The really significant improvement in sound is not from file format. It is what is in the file. Playing, mastering and publishing are far more important than the file format or compression algorithm.
@ThinkingBetter
2 жыл бұрын
@@user-od9iz9cv1w Yes, MQA makes zero sense already. It’s just yet another format that will enter the history book of formats that came and went away.
@nespressoman
2 жыл бұрын
The Carpenters Singles 1969-1981 on SACD sounds fantastic on the stereo and multi tracks.
@centralscrutinizer9591
Жыл бұрын
The Carpenters???? ok grandpa.
@dempsey3
4 жыл бұрын
SACD is the best format ever in my opinion, I buy them as often as I can , they are increasingly hard to find and they ain’t cheap, but they sure do sound the best
@reinaldoalves9038
2 жыл бұрын
me too. I am trying to get some as I possibly can, not cheap at all !
@dannymcneal
4 жыл бұрын
I love listening to SACDs through my Sony DVP-CX777ES 400-disc changer. Superb sound!
@Luvdac62
6 жыл бұрын
What's most important in my humble opinion is the recording/remastering process and not the format. I've heard Redbook CD's that sound fantastic or bad depending on the process involved around the recording or final mastering. Ditto for DSD or PCM Hi Res. I feel that as yet the full potential of red book CD hasn't been harvested and that may hold true for the higher res formats as well.
@motorradmike
5 жыл бұрын
I absolutely agree. Interestingly, I read that many studios may indeed record in DSD but the final mastering is done in the PCM realm.
@playbackvintagehifihunter9669
3 жыл бұрын
Agreed. In my collection of Cds I would estimate about 5% of them sounds stunning.
@brpadington
3 жыл бұрын
The CDs that sound the best to me are the early ones that were basically direct transfers from the master tape.
@johnholmes912
3 жыл бұрын
mastering and mixing in dsd is an absolute nightmare, which is why most studios won't go near it
@ThinkingBetter
2 жыл бұрын
DSD is dead and technically you can achieve superior resolution with a modern PCM streaming service e.g. 192kHz 24 bit streamed from Amazon HD music lossless are better than SACD (DSD-64).
@brianmoore581
6 жыл бұрын
Personally, I don't want anything to do with MQA. Anything that requires my stereo to have an internet hookup to get maximum sound quality is a non-starter for me. No, thanks, even if it was the best sounding format ever. SACD, on the other hand, I absolutely love. Whether the format itself sounds better, or whether it is simply better remastering, I don't know for sure. On second thought, I have many hybrid discs and the SACD layer is inevitably better. Not only the Rolling Stones, but the Police and Peter Gabriel released their entire catalogs on SACD, and Bob Dylan the majority of his. Then there are audiophile labels like Mobile Fidelity, Audio Fidelity, etc. who regularly release SACD titles: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Norah Jones, and on and on. Dire Straits' remaining titles will be out soon from Mobile Fidelity. Then there are countless Japanese releases, from Rock to Jazz to Classical, all easily available to order online. Apparently, SACD is big in Japan. Most of what I've bought sounds exceptionally good. Then there is the Classical market. Many, many Classical titles are still released on SACD and sound absolutely stunning on that format. Rachel Podger's new "Four Seasons" is a great example. Yeah, there are a hundred "Four Seasons" already, but this one is really something special, in both performance and sound quality. And I could go on for hours. There is an ever increasing number of absolute treasures in the best available sound quality on SACD. Sure, it's an audiophile format for a niche market, but so is everything else not named "CD" or "mp3". I actually enjoy tracking down rare discs. I enjoy owning physical media. No streaming for me, no downloads. We all have brands of stereo equipment that the average person has never heard of. We all hopefully put in a little effort to acquire the best sounding releases we can find, if there's a choice, regardless of the format. I started in audio with vinyl records. I own several thousand CDs that I still enjoy immensely. I started buying SACDs back when they were first introduced in 1999, I think it was, and I own several hundred. SACDs just sound best to me. Here we are nearly twenty years later and SACDs are still being released all the time, hardly the mark of a dead format. Niche format may be an apt description, not dead. But we are audiophiles; some would say the entire industry that supplies this hobby is dead. Not to me. Not till the fat lady sings. When it's an option, I will choose SACD every time.
@CanuckFluter
6 жыл бұрын
I have to agree. SACD is my go to and I buy mostly classical and to hell with whether some think it is dead. Titles keep coming out and I keep buying em. Love SACD!
@juliaset751
6 жыл бұрын
Brian, me again...I recommend the Dire Straits Brothers In Arms SACD from MoFi. See if you agree that it sounds better with the phase reversed.
@brianmoore581
6 жыл бұрын
Julia Set I have the Brothers in Arms SACD. It does sound wonderful, much better than the original CD or lp record. I also have a good sounding XRCD of it, but the Mobile Fidelity SACD is the best. Never tried it with the phase reversed, though. I would have to reverse speaker wires because I don't have a phase reverse button on my preamp. My SACD player is an Ayre C-5xe mp. My preamp is a Pass XP-20. I'm planning to upgrade the player to an Esoteric k03xs when I save up the money in about six months or so, hopefully.
@juliaset751
6 жыл бұрын
The Brothers in Arms is one of my favorites, I have the original LP, the MoFi LP, the SACD, the CD, probably others. All of them sound better with phase reversal. I don’t know why phase reversal should even make a difference, given that the music has gone through about a hundred IC’s that probably are inverted. The drums especially sound different. BTW, my preamp is also the XP-20 and I love it.
@zarg05
6 жыл бұрын
MQA players and streamers are massively expensive at the moment. I don't think there will be enough take up.
@planchernewfinish
6 жыл бұрын
I have a few sacd' s about 30 albums, and feel the mastering is better most of the time on sacd then cd, i Think personnally sacd is best overall.
@vwestlife
6 жыл бұрын
You just explained why it's so difficult to try to find used SACD titles mixed in with regular CDs at record stores, thrift stores, flea markets, etc. -- they often don't even mention SACD or have the logo on the covers or spine, and often come in regular CD cases. And even just looking for the rounded Super Jewel Boxes that many SACD titles came in isn't foolproof, as some regular CDs came in a Super Jewel Box as well!
@knockshinnoch1950
Жыл бұрын
Not the case in the UK where SACDs are easily identified- I have over 600 discs and never have I come across a SACD that was not clearly identified
@Grassy_Gnoll
6 жыл бұрын
I AM the Musicophiliac, and I ❤️❤️❤️ me some DSD! Heard it for the first time only a couple of years ago, and was immediately blown away. Bought a player on the used market, but still don't really have a lot to play on it, yet. Thanks to that pro-tip, I'm guessing I'll have some Stones soon, though. I've got the Sympathy for the Devil remixes, and they're alright.
@markyexley9440
6 жыл бұрын
Despite what Steve says many artists have released catalogues on SACD - they have just been snapped up. You can pay a premium - but there are bargains out there like Dark Side Of The Moon. If you don’t mind paying a premium then CDJapan have some good classic rock releases and MoFi stuff is good. There is loads of classical stuff out there.
@stangowin2747
6 жыл бұрын
A first-rate and often very expensive disc player will show SACD and CD to be far better sonically than I believed possible. Much much closer to high speed analog tape, which for these older recordings at least means a closer approach to what was put on the master tapes.
@mondoenterprises6710
2 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, we're going there! I'm still digging hdcds! lol! Neil YOung, Joni, Beach Boys, Cars, Roxy, Ferry, Dead, and many more all sound great to me with my hdcd player and Pacific microsonics hdcd player processor chip. The Stone sacd drama is even crazier than that as they released jewel cases claiming sacd and the discs inside were just regular cds! The digipaks have the sacds.
@knockshinnoch1950
Жыл бұрын
I still have my LINN GENKI CD player with an HDCD chip. I have around 150 HDCD discs and they really do sound awesome. I also have a Marantz SA10 SACD Player and it is a beast. I love both formats. There are still lots of HDCD discs available to buy new at regular prices- no big price hikes like SACD. There are also loads available 2nd hand on Discogs, Amazon & MusicMagpie. With careful checking of catalogue numbers/deep searches you can turn up discs priced at only a few quid- some as low as £2!
@bonalba20
2 жыл бұрын
Hi Steve, greetings from the UK. I must say how well I like your channel and your very easy on the ear presentation. I always feel like you are speaking to me personally. With regard to other artists who committed to SACD, I believe Neil Young was/is a supporter of the format. Keep the content coming!👍
@spudunit
3 жыл бұрын
I have a shoebox full of SA-CDs that I realized, with horror, I haven't listened to in nearly a decade! This will soon change, though. I'm building a tiny house / man cave here in our little forest on the Big Island and I might as well make it into a listening room. The prospect of hearing the beginning of Time on "The" Dark Side of the Moon again brings a smile to my face! I'm just glad there are still players available. Aloha!
@jb.2986
2 жыл бұрын
The future of sound right now is immersive audio. 3D sound using Auromatic up mixing of SACD (hi resolution) or hi resolution files that Apple and Amazon are now producing with Atmos encoding (yes-new offerings daily) is addictive. We have rediscovered not only our SACD’s but our CD collection playing them on a 7.2.6 (13.2) system using the Auro 3D codec (even if released in Atmos format). Thank you Wilfried!
@audiogurulyndon
6 жыл бұрын
With all that "Format Wars" , back then in the early 2000's, I've acquired and listened to all of them. I have a huge collection of sacd, dvd-a, dts-cd. I really love the Dts-audio (CD) formats over the Sacd... Like Steve Wilson's 5.1 mixes on those Classic Rock Faves, as well as His own recordings with Porcupine Tree and his Solos... I agree, you must have a really decent player for it. I really love my Sony-ES, Oppo, and Denon. Universal Dvd Players...Thanks for bringing this up Steve!
@alanus52
Жыл бұрын
It is really important to note that most SACDs are hybrid with a CD layer on the disc as well as the SACD one. This means that any Cd player can play them. As can any SACD player.
@NeilBlanchard
3 жыл бұрын
Your ~3 year old video is floating back up to my suggestions, because I've been hearing about MQA, and the how it is not what it claims to be.
@aussie8114
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem knows you better than you think.
@pappo666
3 жыл бұрын
well i wouldnt call it a scam but Tidal working hard on keeping that secret is fishy since no one can properly test it its hard to know if it is scam or not just look at the "MQA Review" by Goldensound Then again spotify is no better they scamming the artists to on 3 million a year calculated guess best is still CD / SACD (Some of them) and vinyl
@silkhead44
4 жыл бұрын
I have over 40 sacd...love them all...some of them are rare and worth $$$
@StefanWiesendanger
3 жыл бұрын
I guess the reason why DSD/SACD is only really happening in the classical world is that as soon you're using some kind of digital audio workstation like Pro Tools etc. during production, you basically have to use PCM for that. So apart from music that is essentially recorded straight from microphone to master or recorded mostly analog and only then transferred to digital, DSD just doesn't make much sense, because you'd have to convert from DSD to PCM and back anyway during production.
@davidkereluk1805
6 жыл бұрын
Why I remember buying one of them newfangled phonographs that went round at 33 1/3 revolutions. Pissed me off to no end to have to have two phonographs.
@andreassouth1523
3 жыл бұрын
Very informative video!
@nealkurz6503
6 жыл бұрын
I’m pretty sure those Rolling Stones hybrid SACDs had stickers on the outside of the shrink wrap about the SACD format. It was certainly a selling point for me back then, and I looked for that sticker to make sure I was getting the right version. What about BluRay audio? On the classical front there’s some cool stuff happening....big boxed sets coming out in new 24bit remastered versions. Considering that DG, for instance almost never had remastered anything once an initial 16 bit redbook cd came out, this is good news (and these things are space saving too). William Steinberg’s Holst Planets and Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra are spectacular on the new BluRay disc! Whether it’s because it’s hi-Rez isn’t SO important as the fact that they really did the work with the original tapes the right way. 4 channel mix is fun as a bonus (DG has sat on 800 Quad masters for all of these years....Pentatone has been doing SACDs from these recently). Always amazes me to see the comments saying you “can’t” hear quality differences between mp3 and whatever. Just because YOU can’t hear it doesn’t mean it’s not there. And Steve Guttenberg has reviewed MANY pieces of equipment to get a great budget system going for under $1000. So, don’t be lazy, use your ears!
@StringerNews1
6 жыл бұрын
'Always amazes me to see the comments saying you “can’t” hear quality differences between mp3 and whatever. Just because YOU can’t hear it doesn’t mean it’s not there.' Every time someone does, ask them for their sources. I think it's nothing more than a rumor. The burden of proof is always on the claimant, but I have looked and found no evidence of any substantive tests (ie. ones that provide useful evidence) of any kind that compare 320 kbps MP3 and _any_ form of LPCM, and yet I read a very specific claim being made on KZitem at least once a week. Russian bots?
@michaelbeckerman7532
2 жыл бұрын
DSD and SACD continue to grow by the day. They are growing very slowly, but they are growing. Why? Because people are ALWAY going to be looking for higher quality versions of their favorite recordings. That alone is enough to drive both DSD and SACD forward over time.
@knockshinnoch1950
Жыл бұрын
I continue to pick up SACDs and purchase new discs when they become available- I hold out hope that with a "revival" of physical media SACD will be relaunched as a cool must have format similar to the UHQ vinyl niche. It is good to see more SACDs being released as part of the remastered reissues by Analogue and other labels.
@vitorfernandes651
Жыл бұрын
Wrong. It’s growing on classic and jazz. Where’s Michael Jackson, madonna, led zeppelin and a lot more?
@beezanteeum
Жыл бұрын
@@vitorfernandes651 Due to her former label's restriction, Madonna maybe release her album in competing DVD based format: DVD Audio (since SACD is basically a DVD based format, too)
@ianstewart2563
Жыл бұрын
Incorrect. For surround sound you need sacd. Cd is two channel only. But it exceeds human hearing capabilities. In short cd frequency response is 22.5khz. Nobody can hear above that. And anyone over 30 is unlikely to hear above 15khz. Sure sacd can give frequency response to 96khz. So what?? You won’t hear above 15khz, just like you won’t be able to hear a dog whistle. Sure cd is 16 bit v 24 bit for sacd. So what? 16 bit has dynamic range of 96db. Listen at that level for one minute and you’ll be deaf. Sacd has dynamic range of 144db. So what?? Masking effects mean the real dynamic range we can hear is way below 90db. Stereophile review of 1812 overture on Telarc found it’s dynamic range was 44db!! There’s zero music with dynamic range of 96db for good reason. Any difference between cd and higher resolution is due to different mastering. Sometimes manufacturers down resolve cd layer of sacds to make it sound inferior to sacd. The other difference is due to bad cd players with delta sigma dacs. I have Aqua La diva cd transport and La Scala r2r dac. I have oppo205 to Geerfab dbob to La Scala dac. On properly mastered sacd there’s no audible difference between layers. Check out esoteric sacds for proper mastering. Otherwise, unless you want surround sound, invest in a top cd transport and r2r dac, and buy CDs . Look at double blind study reported by AES 2007 that found humans can’t tell any difference between cd and higher resolution formats. Then look at the science of hearing. Then save your money rather than fall for the hype of high resolution (which double blind studies show can’t sound better than cd to humans).
@schinaro
3 жыл бұрын
I love the mult-channel catalogue from Vocallion
@56dinosaur
4 жыл бұрын
ABKCO Records' decision to market their Rolling Stones SACD's at the price of a regular CD (not at a premium "audiophile" price) offended SACD's inventor Sony, so Sony cut off ABKCO's access to Sony's SACD pressing plant, hence ABKCO had to reissue their new Rolling Stones masterings as regular CD's.
@mc365mc
5 жыл бұрын
It played the regular 16bit 44khz stream in a CD player. SACD requires SACD specific hardware.
@crankjazz
6 жыл бұрын
SACD = Schrõdinger's Audio CD? Neither dead or alive :-)
@normanbott
6 жыл бұрын
I Like it, same thought occurred to me as Steve was talking. If more people looked at it would it be more alive ? ;-)
@MegaF1guy
6 жыл бұрын
Super Audio CD
@Baerchenization
5 жыл бұрын
When aliens will visit Earth in 230000 years and find the remnants of civilisation they will report back home that Schrödingers cat being dead and alive was the greatest misunderstanding among the people on this pale blue dot...
@benjaminjensen7834
5 жыл бұрын
Depeche mode did the same and also did multi channel mixes witch sounds great.
@maat020
5 жыл бұрын
London Symphony Orchestra still releases SACD`s
@-IYN-
4 жыл бұрын
What is the source material/carrier? How the conversion/transmission has been executed and with what equipment. Nowadays we can record/mix PCM up to 24b/192kHz. We can record in DSD as well, but mixing/editing is not convenient with DSD.
@alexanderholding1952
5 жыл бұрын
Watching this, I am listening to your voice, wondering how you would sound if you sang some opera. You are an audiophile, I am sure you must have a few opera favorites, you should sing one in your next video...
@sometimesreviewsandthinkin5056
6 жыл бұрын
Let it bleed is a classic.
@tapemaster8252
6 жыл бұрын
That's a hybrid sacd you have it has a traditional CD layer so it plays on a regular CD player, I guess DVD audio and Blu-ray audio is ancient history as well, Jazz artist still release a fair amount though. Hey, where can I get a shirt like the one you're wearing?
@awdadwadwad1723
5 жыл бұрын
Sure I know what it is and it is laying on my bookshelf at the very moment, even if I don't own a SACD player (yet).
@HASHEAVEN
6 жыл бұрын
Most people that claim there is no difference between Normal cd (44.1) and High Rez formats, They also can't hear a difference between 320 mp3 and lossless. So I have no more to say.
@chriss881000
5 жыл бұрын
True. I will say it al comes down to blind tests. I have taken so many blind tests between 320mp3 and lossless. And i am wrong 50% of the time or more. In my opinion if u are Just 50% wrong in bling tests, then u are rly just guessing and hope to pick the right one. I have paid for some months for tidal and im not very impressed. So many songs that sounds so much better on spotify than tidal. Many tidal songs sound very dark and unclear(when i compare them). So i just stick to spotify for now.
@1697djh
3 жыл бұрын
The difference can be heard on more expensive systems, I can hear the difference between DSD and PCM, my MQA DAC went back to the shop for a refund, interesting how no British manufacturer supports MQA
@Ebergerud
3 жыл бұрын
For reasons that are beyond me there's not a single audiophile KZitem guru that likes classical music. So, the people that spend a blinking wad on hardware are squandering it on music that comes with its own distortion. I think you'll find classical CDs were created in top notch studios that dwarf the capabilities of the mom and pop shops that are present today. Add to that SACD and you've got jaw dropping sound. I have about 50 SACD discs and they're great - the multi-channel effect is not at all like Dolby - it's much richer. And new SACD classical releases continue. The music scene is atomized today and that hasn't helped anyone, classical included. But it's still a genre of extraordinary beauty and I hope my SACD player lasts a long time.
@RasheedKhan-he6xx
2 жыл бұрын
Just picked up a used SACD player on Ebay. Denon 1510 - wasn't much time left in the auction so tossed in a half-hearted bid and won. Now am weirdly excited even though I don't yet own a single SACD disc and can clearly the see the rabbit hole opening up in front of me. :D Just hope it actually works. It'll be funny (not) if the SACD function has actually failed and all I'm hearing is regular Redbook and convincing myself in my head that it sounds amazing!
@uhfch2358
5 жыл бұрын
I thought that the SACDs were fairly expensive (more than $50 / disk). So, are these Rolling Stones SACDs the same price as a regular CD, since they are unmarked? I’ve been trying to find a copy of The Cleveland Symphony’s, Pictures at an Exhibition SACD, on Telarc, but the prices are $99 - $250 for one CD!
@kennymchardy
6 жыл бұрын
These were CD/SACD hybrid discs, at least in the UK they were. I got the lot bar a couple of the US versions of the albums
@dean6816
2 жыл бұрын
How good would those Stones master's from the 60s shape up? Would it be even worth putting them on a format like that???
@alexanderberger6960
6 жыл бұрын
It is so said. There are so many scam today. A lot of "Hi Res" streaming made from oversampled MP-3 or other low quality source. 99% or LP reissues (even "audiophile") are made from digital sources or using digital technology. So, in result, you got digital and vinyl technologies drawbacks both.
@matthewv789
3 жыл бұрын
Also, lots of sources are 44 or 48, so delivering them in 96 let alone 192 isn’t adding anything. Not that they sound any worse than 192 sources either, which is why so many audio engineers don’t bother working in high-res in the first place.
@Audfile
6 жыл бұрын
My Emotiva player had Sacd and yes it sounded awesome versus normal cd.
@JayRudko
2 жыл бұрын
SACD is hardly dead. It's a niche format these days. I blame Sony, its creator, for not properly supporting the format. ABKCO was an independent record company, and I give them kudos for releasing the Stones' albums in hybrid SACD format.
@pauljojo6855
5 жыл бұрын
Bought a couple of sacd's a while back when they were reasonably priced, and loved the sound. Checked recently and they are now way to expensive for me. But!!! Now with dolby atmos for home theatre on my pc which i recently got working, playing cd's easily rivals the sacd discs i have. I was blown away actually. It will put out 2 channel stereo only, even though it says its in multichannel mode ( or whatever the source material is). But wow, what a difference! I will never purchase another sacd as long as i can use dolby atmos for home theatre via my pc. Using VLC media player which gave me the best playback sound. Now i see some cd's released in dolby atmos which would be true multichannel but havent heard one yet. I beleive REM released a few.
@stevemouton7531
3 жыл бұрын
I love CD quality sound. If I were putting music on a micro sd card, which format should I download to get cd quality or better sounding music?
@beezanteeum
2 жыл бұрын
You can use lossless format like FLAC or ALAC (a.k.a AAC Lossless), or you can go raw with WAV or AIFF
@MrSteamDragon
6 жыл бұрын
Am into vinyl..always have been. But recently have been getting into high res downloads...out of curiosity other than anything else. But I can also listen to them via headphones ( no headphone amp on my main system) in my study whilst SWMBO is watching the telly. I have to say I am enjoying the experience. But so many digital formats at the moment and, I presume they will continue to evolve over time; some will fade away only to be replaced by others. So one thing i have started to notice is the plethora of the various playback ‘kit’ (software/ hardware) etc required to playback the different formats. As the formats evolve over time, i guess the kit will evolve too. With vinyl though, the format hasnt changed for decades; a spinning platter, a vinyl disk and a pickup. I cant see this concept changing much into the future either. My 1982 Linn will still be playing vinyl records for many more years but will today’s digital playback systems be able to cope with future digital formats? So for me, whilst i am seriously enjoying my current dalliance with digital, i dont see it as a long term option. Just an observation 😎
@dannymcneal
2 жыл бұрын
Steve, you’re just the best! Thank for all the helpful information over the years. I have a question about playing SACDs into powered stereo bookshelf speakers (currently Edifier S3000 Pro). I have a vintage Sony 400-disc DVD/CD changer with SACD playback. However, I just learned that Sony doesn’t provide the SACD information through its digital outputs (optical or digital coaxial). Since I’m wanting to connect the RCA line output directly into my powered speakers, will the high quality SACD signal be output through the two stereo RCA jacks? Thanks, and sorry I didn’t get this out in two sentences. All the best! ~ Danny
@playbackvintagehifihunter9669
3 жыл бұрын
I love SACD, from a former Vinyl exclusive listener.
@johnholmes912
3 жыл бұрын
possibly because like vinyl there is a high level of distortion
@Gavynnnnn
2 жыл бұрын
@@johnholmes912 Not in any audible range. Noise shaping techniques, unlike vinyl lol
6 жыл бұрын
I believe the outer packaging on those SACDs did indicate what they were.
@Foxrock321
Жыл бұрын
Hey Steve, the guys over at PS Audio have a recording studio called Octave Records, and they have very hi end recording gear..DSD and SACD are the end product..the band I play with in Boulder will be recording in August,,,I’ll let you know how it goes..
@dannytse8767
11 ай бұрын
Thanks for the heads up.....I will look for the SACD when it's released.
@jaxnean2663
5 жыл бұрын
I just received a SACD Beethoven and played it on my Sony 4k blu-ray player on some generic Samsung audio bar. Then I played the same album on the same speakers from a KZitem video...couldn't really see much difference. So..where is the problem? My ears? The speakers? The Sony 4k player, or the SACD?
@bluelithium9808
6 жыл бұрын
SACD protocol locked digital output and forced user to use players analog output. So, I only bought one disc and that was it. Couldn't hear a difference anyhow.
@brpadington
3 жыл бұрын
CDs sound amazing when mastered correctly. I bet most people could not tell the difference.
@beezanteeum
2 жыл бұрын
But you can use HDMI to play SACD, at least HDMI 2.0 w/ HDCP 2.2, as long as your player and your AV Receiver support SACD and DSD decoding
@GeirRssaak
3 ай бұрын
Sacd was fantastic!
@thesoulshakers
6 жыл бұрын
Pink Floyd has released their stuff on SACD. Animals in 5.1 is coming out on SACD this year.
@De132an
5 жыл бұрын
Nice preamble for buying the new McIntosh CD/SACD player, but the fact is CD players are going the way of the Dodo bird, cassettes or 8 tracks. I believe best to save your money for buying online content online, sometimes actually free to listen to, or buying improvements for your audio system if you have an itch for spending money. Personally a good used turntable and decent cartridge is a worthwhile addition to any system if not done so. It not superior to digital but can be very relaxing.
@darthdurkelthewise320
3 жыл бұрын
SACD is a niche within a niche within the audiophile community. I love them as I love physical media. I’m not an MQA guy. I tried it and wasn’t convinced but then again I also bought DVD Audio! 😬
@rinkrat06
2 жыл бұрын
I bought the Let it Bleed SACD in 2002 and I'm still spinning it.
@TheEricFlu
6 жыл бұрын
The only SACD I've heard came with my Sony DVD/SACD Player -Bob Dylan- and with the receiver set up correctly, it sounded excellent.
@markd4292
3 жыл бұрын
I am very new to Hifi. I am about to complete my first system since the late 70s and 80s. Its been too long. When I started shopping around for gear (speakers to front end) I was approached by sales people walking around with tablets and punching up songs. Wow, I thought, what the hell is this? It gets me a bit confused how many people into streaming and DACs and all things digital try to get that digital sound as analog as possible. Weird. Or is it just me? Am I missing something? Yet, I am in a rough situation because I have a modest CD collection and even less of a LP collection. So do I give in and get a streamer like a BlueSound? or a DSD player like the Sony Hap1Zes (which I heard was/is pretty good)? Or do I just get a regular Tuner (remember them?) with a CD player and a Phono and start LP collections again? I tell this: the speakers that speak to me the most are probably the most throw back "analog" associated kind: the Klipsch Forte III or IV, even JBL...something about paper cone and horn that is so darn nostalgic. I am temped to get an entry level streamer, just to have until I establish a nice CD/LP collection or should I even bother? It's so darn confusing.
@nicholassheffo5723
Жыл бұрын
Elton John did release most of his early LPs on SACD and in 5.1, unlike those great Stones SA-CDs aka SACD. The PCM tracks on those Stones SACDs were better than all previous CD editions, thus the reason they got dropped. Some specialty labels are doing DSD masters all the way to SACD and vinyl. I guess some people find the lack of editing with DSD an issue.
@mcintoshkid
5 жыл бұрын
I just bought an mct350 mcitosh..try to burn an sacd iso,what I did,but I cant play it on mymcintoash it sucks though
@Geoduck.
6 жыл бұрын
I own several dozen or more SACD's. For the most part amazing good sound. Respectfully the many computer whatever formats are not going to be something I ever adopt to. I have my silver disc spinner and my turn table. I take my record player seriously. The silver spinner is for my SACD's some older red-books that are listenable and blue ray movies my family and I enjoy. For all I know the computer formats maybe amazing. Honestly I don't care and don't have time to figure out the many odd stuff to learn it.
@samuelg7673
2 жыл бұрын
I had two of those rolling stones SACDs, they really are hard to tell unless you look at them.
@conchobar
6 жыл бұрын
I considered SACD dead when the official SACD webpage went dark, and that was a loooong time ago. The real question is DVD-A still alive under the guise of DTS-HS Master Audio?
@dpfreedman
6 жыл бұрын
As a classical music lover, I was an early adopter of SACD. An orchestral recording on multi-channel SACD can sound absolutely spectacular and I'm glad that companies like Pentatone remain committed to the format. Unfortunately, the industry's obsessive fear of unauthorized copying precluded any form of multi-channel digital output from early SACD players. My Sony SCD-XA777ES has five analog RCA outputs to support multi-channel recordings which, of course, means you'd need a receiver or pre-amp with corresponding inputs. The expense and clutter associated with the many interconnect runs was, I'm sure, a huge deterrent to acceptance of the format. Nowadays, encrypted multi-channel sound can be output over HDMI (Sony UBP-X800) making the format much more end-user friendly. Alas, too late.
@johnwatrous3058
Жыл бұрын
The Sony UBP-X800 will play SACD and DVD-A (audio). Unfortunately, I bought the Sony UBP-X700 not knowing it only decodes SACD. For $50 more, I could have got the X800 (X700 was $200 at Best Buy). BTW, SACD is 2 channel audio and DVD-A is 5.1 surround.
@beezanteeum
Жыл бұрын
The first attempt for SACD over HDMI is on PS3 (2006), so it's not too late per se
@rinkrat06
2 жыл бұрын
I've bought 2 sacds this month.
@caleguillory5451
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been watching several videos about this and have been wondering: which of these formats sound exactly like what the microphones picked up in the studio? I bet it’s not DSD mastered from Analog Master Tape because the Super Audio Compact Discs made by MFSL have distortion on them, which, from what I’ve read, is claimed by MQA to be sourced from electrical issues with the analog gear used in mastering and is also claimed to be corrected in the MQA process. However, from testing out MQA files, I’ve heard that their minimum-phase filters still butcher the audio. Treble frequencies are muffled and sometimes bits of the sound wave are broken, making the audio choppy in places. That leaves digital formats such as CD, WAV, FLAC, and DSD, and analog formats such as Vinyl, Cassette Tape, 8-track tape, and Reel-to-Reel tape.
@mikeday62
6 жыл бұрын
I purchased my outstanding Denon DCD610 compact disc player (used) from Ebay two years ago, for the seemingly reasonable price of $25 free shipping. It says 1991 on the rear panel. It plays music in stunning fashion, and the CD tray only occasionally needs a friendly nudge to close, but it always opens. I don't use it much now because I have a dac and youtube.
@mikeday62
6 жыл бұрын
Paul Homchick I need to read up on "ABX test with 44.1/16 lossless" and see what that is about. Thanks for the comment.
@phomchick
6 жыл бұрын
Sorry, Mike. I meant to add a comment to the video and not reply directly to you.
@mikeday62
6 жыл бұрын
Paul No worries. I might learn something this way.
@francesbesaya2897
6 жыл бұрын
SACD dead? Hahahaha! Visit HRAudio.net and see all the new releases coming out weekly. As for myself, I keep buying SACDs by the truckload . Why? Because SACDs give a wide smile while I enjoy their warm, open, detailed sound!
@santiagodiaz5150
6 жыл бұрын
How about explaining what all these formats are for the people who are new to it or don't know... just a thought.
@bareknuckles2u
3 жыл бұрын
Exactly! This video goes nowhere.
@cubeover
3 жыл бұрын
The reason it played on a CD is because it has a CD volume, plus SACD volume - so one in PCM and the other is like DVD-size (200MB+ each track) in DSD.
@NoEgg4u
6 жыл бұрын
@3:21 I suspect that they do not call it MQA, because subscribers would expect to hear MQA, in all of its glory. But if you do not have an MQA compatible DAC, you will not get the full MQA experience. You will get a standard CD experience. Yet, Tidal's content will still sound great, even on a non compliant DAC, because MQA content is Master Quality Authenticated (strict quality control in the mastering process). Tidal provides content that is not vandalized by the knuckleheads that ruin the sound quality on so many CDs. So it is safe for Tidal to call their content "masters". But them calling it MQA, and then folks without an MQA DAC not reaping the full benefit of MQA, could be considered misleading the subscriber.
@bryede
5 жыл бұрын
My understanding is that you get a less than CD experience because MQA data is stored with the music and contributes noise when not decoded.
@anthonywright9357
4 жыл бұрын
I purchased a couple of MQA-CDs from Japan. They sound great, better than the same MQA tracks on Tidal.
@monetize_this8330
4 жыл бұрын
I really wanted DVD Audio to take over from CD because the cost of a decent CD player has gone up. My only multi-channel sacd is Dark Side of the Moon, but I wish it was on DVD so that there's no chance that I'm unable to play the disc on newer gear.
@budgetaudiophile6048
6 жыл бұрын
Hi Boss! You gotta remember that MQA is LICENSED! In the music industry (heck in the audio industry) that's a dirty dirty premise because it means you're paying $$$ for every encode/decode. Tidal can swing that because they STRICTLY limit who and what can do it. It's $20/mo for ACCESS to the MQA (whether you listen to it or not). Currently, it's desktops only, and only within the application. You can NOT do MQA on mobile, you can NOT do MQA in the browser. Heck, you cannot do MQA outside of Windows, I don't think. Tidal also has a SIGNIFICANTLY smaller audience when comparing to Spotify. Spotify's licensing costs would be a FULL order of magnitude higher simply due to the amount of users they had. They would have to introduce tiers to their paid service and I honestly don't think they want to do that. I'd bet a portion of my salary that 99% of people listening to streaming audio do NOT care about sound quality. As long as it sounds good enough. MQA are for people that care not people that simply want to hear some music playing.
@rbhis000
5 жыл бұрын
You can play MQA outside of Windows. BlueSound DACs, for example. Point taken, though.
@matthewv789
3 жыл бұрын
I would take 16/44 flac over MQA any day. It’s a more accurate and more compact depiction of the audible sound.
@johnlebeau5471
6 жыл бұрын
I glommed on to SACD back in the day as it was the only digital format that I could stand to listen to more that one album before my ears started objecting. I have compared directly, vinyl, redbook, hi-res, MQA (software only) and DSD. What I have learned is that the most important thing in digital is the DAC. And probably the most important part of the DAC is the analog output stage. I have had a copy of "Jazz at the Pawnshop" on vinyl for many years. I bought a copy in DSD directly converted from analog. Playing the record followed by the DSD, it is like a curtain had been blocking the players and was lifted for the DSD. The improvement is so great that I suspect the recording was remastered. I never thought I would say this, but digital is now equal to analog, and can be superior in some cases, and as it turns out, always has been. It just took this long for people to start treating the digital to analog conversion seriously. So here is my hierarchy from worst to best: MP3, higher bit rate MP3, cassette (had to throw that in, and yes I have a Nak), CD and MQA (again software decryption only) are equal, 192/24 high res files, vinyl although a remastered high res can sound better, and DSD that is not converted from PCM. Although 44.1/16 PCM can sound very good, high res is better despite theories that say it is not, probably because the brick wall filters are set at a higher frequency and have less effect on the audible frequencies. MQA should have this same advantage.
@markgallagher0000
6 жыл бұрын
what happened to HDCD,I i went for that when i bought my Arcam Alpha 9 cd player,doh,wrong choice.....great vids.thx mk
@johnmarchington3146
14 күн бұрын
All the Genesis studio albums came out in three SACD boxes. Unfortunate;y - as an avidl SACD fan - I don't think the remastering was dome to best effect, but that's just my opinion. Acoustic Sounds continues to release SACDs from the likes of Steely Dan, Phil Collins and others. I also believe that MQA is now a thing of the past, regardless of whether Tidal is still supporting it or not.
@jfbaquero
6 жыл бұрын
SACD is pretty alive in HiFi especially in Classical. Go and check Acoustic Sounds and CD Japan or Presto Classical and Europadisc SACD sections, they are huge. Certainly SACD is not mainstream but it's pretty great because it's the digital format closest to analog. DSD is pretty popular now with DACs and DAP (digital audio players). IMHO MQA is useless and I don't it will survive the test of time, just another tech trend. In the next years we will certainly see the rise of HiRes lossless wireless technologies, for example BluOS.
@venturarodriguezvallejo1567
5 жыл бұрын
@Çerastes Thank God, there is someone (as least) who understands this "small" detail. 😄
@jimolson9671
5 жыл бұрын
jfbaquero Ilove BlueOS and it’s built-in MQA DAC.
@mc365mc
5 жыл бұрын
So you think highly of the niche DSD format that has no popular music titles but your opinion of a MQA which is virtually indistinguishable from lossless, at like a quarter of the storage size of flac and is available across genres, you think this is useless. OK.
@jimolson9671
5 жыл бұрын
mc365mc every time I open Tidaal and check out the explosion of new MQA inventory, this guy couldn’t be farther from the truth. He is clueless! I bet he has it even tried anMQA DAC1
@AllboroLCD
2 жыл бұрын
DSD based releases are put onto DVD's now.
@BrianSmith-vl7xu
Жыл бұрын
Blu-ray audio also sounds great
@mikeday62
6 жыл бұрын
Apologies Steve. I deleted my previous comment before I noticed you had replied to it. Then I received a youtube notification about your reply. In the meantime I heard you say in the video that SACD would work on legacy CD players. THANK YOU Steve for your reply!
@neilgelowitz4737
6 жыл бұрын
Not all SACD discs will work on legacy CD players. The ones that are shown as hybrid SACD had a CD layer in addition to SACD. However, there are titles out there that are pure SACD. They won't work in a traditional CD player. However, most on the market are the hybrid discs.
@mikeday62
6 жыл бұрын
Neil That's good to know, thanks.
@nikola9753
6 жыл бұрын
SACD is alive in DSD form,especially with DAP users. MQA is one step away from becoming popular, and that is to be accepted by Spotify or Deezer, besides Tidal
@dieseldust27
4 жыл бұрын
I like collecting physical format so I stay away from MQA. Streaming just doesn't cut it for me
@markd4292
3 жыл бұрын
Don't know if you are going to get this but...I hear you about streaming isn't for you. I "don't think" it's for me too, yet I may have to do it until I establish a CD/LP collection again. I hear you can download music or rip it onto a USB, and then listen to it from the USB? Wha? How does it sound? How can it sound good? I don't understand. Man, growing up in all analog era, I always liked what I heard, I never doubted what I heard was what I was hearing, but today, I question what I hear is Actually what is Meant to be Heard. Weird stuff.
@juliaset751
6 жыл бұрын
I think the thing that killed the SACD was the DRM that forced you to play them through the analog out of a player. It would be nearly impossible to find an SACD player that would compare to a good stand-alone DAC in sound quality. The best I have heard is the Oppo 103 with a Vanity HD board, which converts the DSD to 176.4/24 PCM, then via SPDIF to a DAC.
@brianmoore581
6 жыл бұрын
Julia Set the thing is, if you are converting DSD to PCM, then there's no point in it ever being DSD to start with. Esoteric and dcs, to name a few, offer DACs that convert DSD natively, no PCM conversion necessary. It sounds better that way. I would also add that many SACD players sound phenomenal on their own. Many also offer digital inputs that let the player function as a DAC for your other digital sources.
@juliaset751
6 жыл бұрын
Brian, I agree with you 100%, there is no point in converting to PCM. Maybe I was not choosing my words well enough, but that was the point I was trying to make. Most people would have to pay big bucks for a dedicated disc player just to play SACD’s at a decent quality. And they would not even have the choice if they wanted to play their SACD music as files from a server or portable player. My $1500.00 Marantz SACD player on the analog out clearly cannot compete with SACD’s converted to PCM and played from my server. I confess that I only have about 50 SACD’s, maybe if I had a thousand I might feel differently.
@venturarodriguezvallejo1567
5 жыл бұрын
Julia Set: Another point is most labels claiming "Pure DSD" (Blue Coast Music is a perfect example) do not record/mix/master in DSD...,,just because, to date, editing capabilities of the format are extraordinary limited, if existing. The usual procedure is to record, edit and mix in DXD (a very high sampling frequency PCM variant) and then convert the master to DSD. A non very fair method of dealing with things, from my point of view.
@kacperuminski1547
5 жыл бұрын
ventura rodríguez vallejo I have personally heard of people mixing in analog during recording before the ADC so that it stays as "pure DSD."
@venturarodriguezvallejo1567
5 жыл бұрын
@@kacperuminski1547 That's true. But there is a well known international code for this: the characters "a" and "d" ("a" for "analog", "d" for "digital") grouped in a set of three to ibentify every step of the whole recording. If a label, for example, records in digital, mixes in analog and then masters the record in digital (too many conversions, I think), it must be marked d/a/d. In this case, the company cannot claim the final product is "pure digital" (no matter if PCM or DSD) becase it is not.
@Fastfwd01
4 жыл бұрын
I'm considering a Sony 4K video player with SACD capability thrown in right now. I've never heard it. It's actually a plus for the player imo vs possibly better video quality of a more expensive player I've got a few DVD-A discs from the early 2000s and it can play those too. My gripe with Tidal MQA with my trial of the highest tier Tidal is that it would require a Bluesound Node 2 for like $500 to really play them while I can play Amazon HD Ultra natively on my receiver. I personally do think some of the Ultra HD material on Amazon is the real deal. Some of it might be real high resolution, but the source material just isn't all that terrific anyway to really make the most of it. I hate for Amazon to dominate everything so I wish Tidal were more easily accessible, but $500 is too much fir me just to play Tidal MQA and pay an extra $8 or so a month for it vs Amazon Ultra HD.
@barebarekun161
4 жыл бұрын
I'll give SACD a try funny how CD all of a sudden just wasn't enough to my ears anymore. I might as well getting used to see and buy a lot of Jazz and classical albums from now since that's the SACD's bread and butter genres. I just need some good universal player to get me started.
@melvinrimorin7840
6 жыл бұрын
Great video, Steve! I ended with flac, ripped from CDs, and I'm happy with it. Also got 320kbps MP3s, a very few that's lower bit rates and happy with them too. A few hi-res here and there (96/24 or a little higher) but they're not better than CD quality flac, so there's that. I can't justify building systems costing hundreds and even thousands to hear the benefits of the aforementioned formats. Plus file sizes are ridiculous. At the end of the day, it's all about the music that touches you, not the sound.
@aristatibb7
5 жыл бұрын
SACD 4.1 is very much alive , Original 1970 Quadraphonic Tapes now being transferred and mastered at the Austria factory for the UK Label and USA Label
@peterregorsek1504
3 жыл бұрын
Today you can buy japanese SHM-CD`s and Hi-res MQA CD`s, they will play in a standard CD player and sound fantastic. Problem with SACD format was the price of reissues and that it needs a special player which was never cheap. It was more a format of rich people than average population.
@dannytse8767
2 жыл бұрын
Dependent on where you are and when you get involved in SACD, players capable of playing SACD can be had for under US$200.00. Even today, Sony sells a SACD capable transport for about US$200.00.
@Beyondabsence
5 жыл бұрын
Could anyone tell me some of the best sites to buy used CDs , sacds? I use discog for vinyl. Thank you
@melchior-christophvonbrinc7764
4 жыл бұрын
rutracker.org
@knockshinnoch1950
Жыл бұрын
There was never a big scale marketing campaign to launch and promote the SACD format. Just think of how Apple marketed the i-pod and i-tunes - the iconic ads that features cool graphics and focused on this white earbuds- those ads were EVERYWHERE! I cannot remember ever seeing any large scale promotional campaign in print on TV or in-store promotion points. If SONY had really put their weight behind the product it would've quickly caught fire, sadly they didn't and the mass market were happily ignorant while listening to their MP3 files on their shiny new white I-pod and ear buds.
@motorradmike
6 жыл бұрын
Great points all, Steve. The industry paranoia over piracy has caused this decline of viable hi-Rez formats.
@AndyP126
6 жыл бұрын
i think hi-res formats were developed solely for the DRM. I don't think the record industry ever envisioned that people would be able to rip CDs and stick 'em on a portable device. They're used to you buying the same albums over again in a new format. With the advent of CD ripping, you never needed to do that again.
@motorradmike
6 жыл бұрын
Andy Pastuszak, good point.
@StringerNews1
6 жыл бұрын
It might be a good point, except for the fact that LPCM has no DRM. The most-used containers for LPCM are DRM-free. Only MQA uses DRM, and the claim that it is hi-res is dubious.
@yannisgk
6 жыл бұрын
SACD/DSD ADDS NOISE IN THE UPPER FREQUENCIES, ALTHOUGH THE "1-BIT" "FLAG" SEEMS AUDIOPHILISH (SIC!) :) STAY ON PCM/HI-RES & ANALOG AND WILL SEE...!!! PLEASE DON'T STOP LISTENING TO MUSIC THOUGH!!!
@StringerNews1
6 жыл бұрын
DSD adds not only noise but massive amounts of distortion all over the place. The _only_ way that it becomes playable at all is to use noise-shaping (to move the noise to higher frequencies) and at least partial conversion to PCM to find a signal in the noise. The people who rave about SACD and DSD as if it's a wonder drug are either cynical salespeople who would say anything to get a sale, or nitwits who drank the kool-aid. As an aside, the last time I checked, the goal of good sound reproduction was to sound the same, not MASSIVELY...well, anything. People who claim HUGE DIFFERENCES in all caps kinda make me wonder what their major malfunction is. Is that what SACD sounds like? Everything turned past 11? Yuck.
@stefansigurdsson4277
6 жыл бұрын
Bullshit!
@andreasleonlandgren3092
5 жыл бұрын
Sacd is so good I still buy it and I love it. There are Also tons of files of it online.
@marcdavis8842
5 жыл бұрын
The Rolling Stones Albums and Bob Dylan Albums were the very first SACD albums to be Pushed By Sony back in 2002-2003 I was lucky enough to buy most of The Rolling Stones SACDs and a small handful of Dylan Albums at Sony Galleria Store which was Sony Flagship Store down Tottenham Court Road back during the good years before they all closed down here in the UK. I'm. Big big fan of this format I also have aload of DVD-A Albums as well but SACD is the winner by a mile for me.
@bilguana11
6 жыл бұрын
I bought most of the Stones hybrid discs titles at Tower Records when they came out. They had been recently demoed at the AES Convention. I don't recall, but perhaps the wrapped said that they were hybrid discs. They all said 2002 on the back. The previous releases came in plastic cases. Robert Ludwig skillfully mastered them so even the CD layer was a vast improvement. I love them; they sound great.
@batman.darthmaul
2 жыл бұрын
Mofi seems to be supporting SACD pretty well these days. I believe Sony Blu Ray players still support the format as well. Also, the major labels sometimes backup their vintage analog master tapes to DSD for archival purposes and to re-sell to the consumer in the form of vinyl and hi res PCM.
@dannytse8767
2 жыл бұрын
In terms of SACD releases, MoFi is not even in the top 5 on a yearly basis. Last time I checked, for calendar year 2020, BIS of Sweden and Hong Kong Universal Music were the most active SACD labels.
@batman.darthmaul
2 жыл бұрын
@@dannytse8767 Oh, I have no idea how Mofi (or Analogue Productions, for that matter) "competes" with other labels in terms of quantity, especially on an international level. I'm just glad to know they currently support SACD as a digital alternative to their vinyl remasters. Given that none of the online sources seem to have an exhaustive, and therefore accurate, list of titles that have been released on the format, all of the stats out there are more or less guesstimates. Probably only Sony knows for sure. Additionally, looking only at SACD physical disc sales is also a bit misleading. As I already mentioned, music labels like to dub and remaster their analog master tapes to DSD for archive. To offset the cost, they often resell the remaster to the consumer in the form of vinyl and hi res PCM files. If there are no SACD discs or DSD files offered of the new transfer, then this activity and usage of the format is completely overlooked.
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