There doesn't appear to be too many on here singing the praises of SACD,so I feel I have got to add my twopenny worth.
I don't know anything about studio difficulties with the creation of the discs so can't comment.All I do is listen to them.
I must admit I don't have a record player that cost many thousands of pounds .Mine is a Thorens TD160 Super with an SME series 2 improved arm and fitted with a Denon 160 moving coil. As such it represents as much as I want to spend on this type of device.
However, it can't even begin to compare with the sound that I get from even a standard well recorded C.D. When it comes to SACD this is to my ears an even further step up.
I listen to Classical,Jazz,R&b,male & female vocal ( those of a nervous disposition turn away now) and country.
I can play my hybrid SACDs on my Marantz SA7003 or on a good (not super high end) quality standard Sony CD player.
The SACD wins for me.
Although I have a decent Apple Mac computer which I understand is reasonable at downloading music I must confess I don't understand the first thing about it. It seems that the downloading world is littered with abbreviations and initials all of which merely serve to baffle me (my first radio was a crystal set and the first computer I worked on used a few hundred 6060 double triode valves).
So for me SACD is perfect,it will play all of my older standard CDs plus any SACD that I currently buy. It doesn't cost as much as a super price record player and in any case I got fed up with the quality of LPs which went very downhill after the oil price rises in the 1970s.
And of course the SACD is so easy to use and store.
I don't know anything about studio difficulties with the creation of the discs so can't comment.All I do is listen to them.
I must admit I don't have a record player that cost many thousands of pounds .Mine is a Thorens TD160 Super with an SME series 2 improved arm and fitted with a Denon 160 moving coil. As such it represents as much as I want to spend on this type of device.
However, it can't even begin to compare with the sound that I get from even a standard well recorded C.D. When it comes to SACD this is to my ears an even further step up.
I listen to Classical,Jazz,R&b,male & female vocal ( those of a nervous disposition turn away now) and country.
I can play my hybrid SACDs on my Marantz SA7003 or on a good (not super high end) quality standard Sony CD player.
The SACD wins for me.
Although I have a decent Apple Mac computer which I understand is reasonable at downloading music I must confess I don't understand the first thing about it. It seems that the downloading world is littered with abbreviations and initials all of which merely serve to baffle me (my first radio was a crystal set and the first computer I worked on used a few hundred 6060 double triode valves).
So for me SACD is perfect,it will play all of my older standard CDs plus any SACD that I currently buy. It doesn't cost as much as a super price record player and in any case I got fed up with the quality of LPs which went very downhill after the oil price rises in the 1970s.
And of course the SACD is so easy to use and store.
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