Originally posted by Kal Rubinson
802D and hi-rez music
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Originally posted by johanWith 5 x 800D's and a couple of ASW855 properly setup in a good room I'm sure it will be magic!!- Bottom
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Originally posted by PavelLIt may sound silly to some but IMHO what a good stereo system does much better is create an ILLUSION with only 2 speakers - when sound seems to be coming from between the speakers and lets you wonder as to how it is possible. MCH sounds at least not worse - but I don't see any "magic" about it :W
Kal (who still gets stunned by stereo on occasion)Kal Rubinson
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I'm sure that most of you are familiar with http://www.acousticsounds.com/. However, if you haven't ever visited the site, they have an excellent selection of SACD and DVD-A content.
Check it out!
-BLast edited by drsiebling; 06 May 2006, 10:21 Saturday.- Bottom
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Originally posted by Kal RubinsonSo, it's about "degree of difficulty" for you. :B Please note that there are still spaces between the 5 speakers and the magic, for me, has less to do with the means than the results.
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Originally posted by jlr_1304Kal : did you receive the ultimate demo disc ?
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Originally posted by jlr_1304
Thanks.
KalKal Rubinson
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These are the two stores I use the most. If you join Acoustic Sounds you can register to receive the newsletter which lists new releases every few days. I recently bought five remastered Moody Blues albums in SACD.
"He's outside and looking in"
Acoustic Sounds
Music Direct
I won't buy SACDs from Amazon anymore, because they send me the normal CDs when they can't find a SACD version. This has happened to me at Best Buy as well, but with Best Buy I can drive to CT and return them, with Amazon I have to ship it back. Both a royal pain in the arse. Besides which, Acoustic Sounds and Music Direct carry a lot of Japanese SACD imports, though they are pricey as all hell. Acoustic Sounds also categorizes some high resolution discs according to whether they are no longer being produced and will soon be out of stock permanently. They also put this info in their newsletter so you can grab something before it becomes a lot harder to find.- Bottom
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Originally posted by JKalman
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All music should be issued in SACD hybrid format, replacing RBCD as the standard. Let DVD-A and DualDisc be a niche market. An article at positivefeedback.com pretty much says it all. SACD hybrid discs truly reward those who purchase high quality playback equipment like B&W speakers without punishing anyone who doesn't, indeed they encourage the purchase of better speakers etc..
There are very few new hit records out on SACD hybrid, which is crazy. One of them is John Legend's Get Lifted which is terrific. When I bought that disc at Best Buy it was actually cheaper than the same title on RBCD. Why would anyone buy the RBCD when the SACD hybrid was available? Why would the studio even release a RBCD only version? Why would Best Buy even stock the RBCD? -- and the inventory of RBCD was much larger than the SACD, there were only a couple of them.- Bottom
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Originally posted by chuck1801All music should be issued in SACD hybrid format, replacing RBCD as the standard.
I have 1600 Red-book CD's & they're perfectly fine thank you very much. I also own several DTS & DD music DVDs, a couple of DVD-A's & SACD's and to be honest they're not so fantastic - I've a TAG McLaren DVD player that plays RBCD's incredibly well within my system (with B&W 802D's) - I'm not bowled-over enough by SACD to want to go & add another piece of kit to my shelves - and nor I suspect are the hundreds of millions of people out there who already have CD & DVD players at home / in the car / in the office / elsewhere....- Bottom
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Because SACD hybrids wouldn't require new hardware for people who only want the redbook layer of the sacd. But would allow people buyign the cd to take advantage of the sacd part if they had the equipment.
Of course, I'd think this would bump CD prices, and not everyone wants to be in Sony's pockets...- Bottom
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Originally posted by CleptoBecause SACD hybrids wouldn't require new hardware for people who only want the redbook layer of the sacd. But would allow people buyign the cd to take advantage of the sacd part if they had the equipment.
Of course, I'd think this would bump CD prices, and not everyone wants to be in Sony's pockets...
Sucks, don't it?
I personally prefer the sound of DVD-A, but I would settle for either if both sides would get their acts together and make a last ditch effort to save one format. I admit the hybrid SACD would be the better choice because it has better backwards compatibility with CD players, since they are more ubiquitous at this point. Most cars don't have DVD players. Of course, lossy compression may one day make us appreciate and pine for the good old days of 16 bit/44.1 Khz CD formats. If only Sony had made hybrid SACD discs at the start of all this, they could have infiltrated a large segment of the audio market. They are notorious for stupid short-sighted decisions concerning their formats. The problem is that greed is of ultimate concern to them, just look at this whole Blu-Ray/HD-DVD problem brewing, another fine mess in the making.- Bottom
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