Possible to backup DVD-A or SACD?

[basementjack]

It's with much sadness that the SACD / DVD-A formats never took off. It was always on my "to-do" list, but the players were always too expensive.

Now I've found a dealer with a $99 Pioneer model that plays both DVD-A and SACD -Yet it appears it is 2 years too late - there is basically no software available - the best buy's by me have non, and I'm not even sure if Fry's does any more - last time I looked, it looked pretty picked over.

Is there anyway to make a backup DVD-A or SACD? Now that the formats are dead, this might be the only way to obtain any of these out of print discs.

[Alaric]

Love Google

Google SACD and all kinds of stuff comes up , including a bunch of places to buy them , including www.chesky.com and www.AcousticSounds.com
I will offer this caution : I had a "great deal" on a Toshiba multi-player that decoded SACD and I didn't know how awful it sounded until I got a decent SACD/CD player. A (relatively) affordable ($600 to $1000) player will be far and away more rewarding . I believe Denon has some good CD players for less than that. I have heard a bunch of SACD players and my compromise was a Marantz SA8260. Less than that and a good "Red Book" player will out perform most SACD players. In my experience , unless you yearn for that "vinyl" sound ( I do!) a reasonable investment in a good quality CD player probably makes more sense.
Unless you have a good multi-channel setup! My system is 2 channel only so I don't listen to music with the 5.1 format. I stretched my budget for two half-decent speakers , five ain't happenin'! Fortunately SACD is analog output so I haven't run into the "must haves" for a DAC (although I'm looking at them). On the original point , my $99.00 Toshiba is now a DVD-only player on my second tv in the basement. After hearing a good , dedicated , CD player I won't use the Tosh for anything more than it's current , limited , duties. The ability to decode a signal doesn't necessarily guarantee a faithful reproduction of said signal. Unfortunately it's frequently difficult to A/B components of vastly different price ranges ($99 vs. $300) because they are usually in different stores. The Marantz can be had for around $800 online , but I would ask around this forum for recommendations-these guys have a lot more experience and have auditioned a lot of stuff. Read as many posts as you can and you'll start to find SQ descriptions you can relate to-"Hey!I heard that on a .....)