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SA-CD/DVD-A?

So what do yall think about the future of these formats? I purchased two SA-CD's today Eric Clapton Slowhand and Incubus A Crow Left of the Murder. And I really enjoy both. But the thing is that it seems that their are not many avable at the local stores and Im scared to start a colection of them in fear that players wont play them in a few years and that this collection will be friviolus. But I do enjoy the quality.
accorddude
rsbeck
887 posts
 
Redbook CD's are standard CD's. I get most of my SACD's from either http://store.acousticsounds.com/ or Amazon.com, but I have also bought them from Tower Records and Best Buy.
accorddude OP
45 posts
 
can yall tell me about the diffrent cd formats? Like on these sites i see HD-CD,Gold CD,DTS CD, XRCD,SRCD-2, XRCD24?
accorddude OP
45 posts
 
any one? bump on this format quesetion please.
1markr
594 posts
 
OK Accorddude, I'll give it a shot...Anyone, feel free to correct if I state something incorrectly.

First of all,

Redbook - Standard CD format

HDCD - a higher res redbook format that requires the end player to contain a special chipset (Pacific Microsonics, or something like that) to decode the high def information. However, it will still play fine on regular run of the mill redbook players without the decoder, thus no sonic enhancements.

Gold CD - mostly a recording media, not a process or standard.

DTS - a surround sound format

XRCD, XRCD2, XRCD24 - JVCs answer to a higher res redbook format that does not require a special decoder chipset to retrieve high def info. Any CD player can play these and reap the benefits, if any.

Does this help?
accorddude OP
45 posts
 
Yeah and i dident mean to have dts on that list.
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