@krell_fan1 "I am in the camp that is in disbelief that anyone could NOT affirm that a
well produced SACD doesn't sound sound SIGNIFICANTLY better than it's
CD counterpart."
I share your opinion.
My best friend is a musician, does a lot of recording and production, and skirts with the idea of becoming an audiophile. He often tells me about how the conversion down to 16/44 is like driving on a smooth as silk superhighway, and turning off onto a dirt road. He considers it the most depressing part of his work.
Several years ago, he wanted to hear a piece he found in my collection. I told him it was an SACD, and we talked for a few minutes about it. Like so many outside this world, he asked a technical / spec question, as that's what they focus on, "How many bits?" I answered, "1 bit." The look of scorn on his face was something I wish I captured. Anyway, I told him Philips and Sony introduced SACD to replace the CD, with the goal of better replicating the music's analog waveform. The spec of a sampling rate 64X higher still didn't impress him. Anyway, pop the disc in, begin playing, and within a second or three the look on his face became just as priceless as the previous one. For the next year or so, he kept talking to me about the absurdity of this format never taking off, no one even hearing about it, and how massive a sonic improvement it represented as he heard it himself
I share your opinion.
My best friend is a musician, does a lot of recording and production, and skirts with the idea of becoming an audiophile. He often tells me about how the conversion down to 16/44 is like driving on a smooth as silk superhighway, and turning off onto a dirt road. He considers it the most depressing part of his work.
Several years ago, he wanted to hear a piece he found in my collection. I told him it was an SACD, and we talked for a few minutes about it. Like so many outside this world, he asked a technical / spec question, as that's what they focus on, "How many bits?" I answered, "1 bit." The look of scorn on his face was something I wish I captured. Anyway, I told him Philips and Sony introduced SACD to replace the CD, with the goal of better replicating the music's analog waveform. The spec of a sampling rate 64X higher still didn't impress him. Anyway, pop the disc in, begin playing, and within a second or three the look on his face became just as priceless as the previous one. For the next year or so, he kept talking to me about the absurdity of this format never taking off, no one even hearing about it, and how massive a sonic improvement it represented as he heard it himself