@wcfeil "Hi Joe"
Ah, my true friend is now here!
Ah, my true friend is now here!
Best sounding SACD's to show-off system
@jafant "treljathe SACD may not have reached the masses? Much depended upon
location(s). Best Buy, in my area, always had a pretty good selection
over several genres of music. Circuit City (remember this chain store?)
dabbled in SACD, again, in my area." You're exactly right. Most likely, I bought most of my SACDs from Best Buy. And at decent price. We also had Circuit City also in my area, but I don't think I ever bought an SACD there. What I mean about SACD not reaching the masses is that virtually none who actually (most likely, unwittingly) bought a hybrid got to actually hear the SACD layer, as they lacked the hardware that allowed it. SACD not taking off drove me back to vinyl. I have a ton of CDs, but CD just cannot provide me with the same moving experience. My best friend is a serious musician, got signed to a record deal by the Maloof brothers, and has a bit of interest from afar in high-end audio. He'd never heard of SACD, and when I talked with him about it, the conversation normally went nowhere. Once, we got into a little more, and he asked me how many bits SACD used. The look on his face when I told him 1 bit was of utter scorn. However, several months later, within 3 seconds of listening to the opening track of Getz / Gilberto SACD, the more than ubiquitous Girl From Ipanema, I literally saw his eyes pushing out and his jaw hanging |
trelja3,109 posts "I literally saw his eyes pushing out and his jaw hanging" That is an astounding occurance did his eyes actually fall out or were you able to push them back into his head has he seen a doctor to get them reconnected please tell us more about what "literally" happened? |