I went to Best Buy to purchase some SACDs and after searching for the special section containing sacds and xrcds without success, I asked the salesman where they were. He informed me that they were all removed since dual disc is now the rage. WOW!
I noticed Best Buy removed the SACS special section but discovered on my own that they just blended them in to the CD section like Barnes & Noble and Borders does.
Fight the good fight. Borders, Barnes and Noble, and Best Buy will NEVER cater to those who seek quality. The SACD re-masters will come, but from other places. And it will be worth it. Stay the course. Keep your SACD player. There will be plenty to choose from, as long as your musical taste isn't pigeonholed into one small genre.
I love SACD when the recording is superlative, but I'm totally tired of paying higher prices for product that too often just doesn't rise to the occasion. When it's right, SACD is totally inspiring. When it isn't, I grumble about paying premium dollars for something that fails to thrill.
That's why I buy SACDs that are pure DSD. Don't get remakes of old recordings on SACD unless they are remastered. Go for RB in that case. You gotta work with the system... ;)
the sacd's that are coming out(including hybrids) have already been committed to(particularly from the major labels. the windows for production, manufacturing and marketing are typically 10 to 18 moths before street. a small community indeed in its heyday bozak (a well regarded, and expensive at the time, audiophile speaker) sold in excess of 20,000 pairs a year. very few hi end speaker companies even come close to that today. if they do its bcause they are exporting the lions share of their inventory abroad. in bozak's heyday those sales were primarily in the u.s. only. the avg worldwide audiophile- grade vinyl run (per title) has just dropped below 900. i long way from the 5k and higher mf did per title less than a decade ago.
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