SA-CD/DVD-A?

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?

any one? bump on this format quesetion please.

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?

Yeah and i dident mean to have dts on that list.

IMHO you can buy hybrid sacd without fear. For those who don't know, they have a redbook cd layer and a sacd layer. You don't need a sacd player to play the redbook layer. The redbook layer, for me so far anyway, has been the best sounding cd version out there. Even if sacd fails, you still can play the redbook layer. You also have the start of a sacd library. Sacd only disc's, however, can only be played on a sacd player. i won't buy them.