I know
about mastering, compression and those things but that is another story. I was
talking about comparing the same production as Red Book and as SACD (in my case
hybrid SACD discs).
I"m not planning to buy SACD discs of albums I already have on CD. I just thinking
of playing the hybrid SACD:s I have and will buy in the future.
My first thought was to buy a CD-transport (max 1k). But if I could buy a SACD
player (max 3k) that would give me a superior sound from the SACD layer,
compared to what I get from the Red Book layer from my Cambridge CXC transport + LAB12 DAC1 SE, it
would be interesting. I assume the CD/SACD drive in a 3k SACD player will be better
than Cambridge CXC.
But your posts made me think. And I think; why must it always be so
difficult? :)
SACD or not SACD?
Hej
I have two
DAC:s but just one transport so I thought I'll buy another transport for my head speaker
rig. But then I thought, maybe I should look
for a SACD player instead (have some classical discs with SACD and my interest
for classical music is growing so there will surely be more SACD hybrid
discs).
I've read some reviews of SACD players and the conclusion is always the same;
SACD sounds better than CD. But they always compares SACD vs CD on the same
player. Never the SACD player as a SACD player vs a dedicated CD player with
the same SACD hybrid disc.
And I've even read that some people says that a SACD plays can't read Red Book
properly.
So the question is; how much do I have to spend to get a SACD player that plays
CD:s at least as good as my Cambridge CXC transport paired with LAB12 DAC1 SE or at
least as RME ADI-2 DAC FS? Or maybe a SACD player that would be at least as
good transport as my Cambridge CXC. Yes, I realize that the chance that anyone
have had the chance to compare these combinations are almost none, but...
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Steve Guttenberg has an interesting video on that very subject. I happen to agree with him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSBJKOjBWlc |
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For 3k budget, I recommend consider the Marantz SA-KI Ruby. You can then use the Ruby as transport for redbook CD playback into your existing R2R DAC. You can use the Ruby for SACD and high-res music playback. To posters who hate high res audio, try download free samplers from Blue Coast and Native DSD (and many others) where studio performance were recorded straight to DSD without going thru PCM conversion or upsampling. Normally they have 44.1k & 96k WAV and DSD 2x and 4x versions in the same download folder. If you can't hear any difference, then something is really wrong. |
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