HYBRID SACD stereo or multichannel.

Metralla....I am curious WHY you are put off by the DVD-A method for stereo playback of multichannel discs. It seems to me that the flexible DVD-A protocol is far superior to the locked-in-concrete rules that Sony has laid down for SACD.

Agree Metralla, while I find DVD-Audio's to sound (good enough for me), I'm not going to go the extra mile to enjoy what I can have on sacd with-out extra effort.

Dave

Eldartford, I don't have a multichannel system. I have a stereo system and want the hi-rez format I choose to honour my commitment. SACD does this. I want the mastering engineer to mix the stereo track, and I want them to do the best damn job they can, with the same commitment to quality as I have.

The concept of a fold-down offends my purist leanings.

Regards,

Metralla...Thanks for explaining your reasoning. As I understand it (and info is scarce) the mixdown coefficients used by a DVD-A player in creating the stereo program are selected by the recording engineer and encoded on the disc. So the recording engineer is still in the loop. Of course, almost all recordings, CD, SACD, and DVD-A, are mixed down from a dozzen or more tracks, so one more mixdown can't be all that bad.

Can Quadraphonic Recorded LP's be played on a 2 channel analogue rig?