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SACD

SACD sounds better right???
all of my stuf flooded 4’ 4 days.
i have no money but I am replacing a headphone setup and I feel I must have in CD player SACD because it sounds much better, am I right?????? Help!!
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bdp24
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Ah, okay jafant. I've noticed some titles on CD have reached ridiculously low prices recently, like five bucks for a fairly recent Rodney Crowell album. Too bad I already have it!
ian_of_glos
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Is this post still active? If so then I would like to add a few comments of my own.

About 6 months ago I finally took the plunge and bought my first SACD player. In most cases my SACDs do sound better than similar recordings on CD, although I do accept that this might be due to better recording or remastering techniques. It is logical that the recording engineers would  put more effort into a recording that they thought was likely to be played by audiophiles on high end equipment. However I have also experimented with playing the CD layer and the SACD layer of same disc and again I believe the SACD layer sounds better. It is not true of every disc but generally speaking the SACD sound has more depth to it and the SACDs do not produce that harsh sound that I find with some of my recordings on CD.

One thing I would like to mention is that the SACD format is not dead and some of the smaller labels continue to release new recordings on SACD - BIS, LSO Live, Pentatone and Channel Classics are all remarkably good and I have noticed that recently Chandos have released some of their recordings as SACDs 

mahler123
3,357 posts
 
Classical Music has kept SACD from total extinction.  In the rest of the music genres, it doesn’t have much of a presence
edcyn
1,876 posts
 
The addition of a Mytek Brooklyn Bridge to my system did largely even the playing field between CD and SACD when I play stuff on my Sony XA5400ES, but I just put on a single layer Sony SACD of violinist Giuliano Carmignola doing late Vivaldi concertos and I gotta say I'm in audiophile heaven.
soundboy
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Over the past 4 years, 2015-2018, there were more than 700 new SACD releases worldwide for each of those years. Of course, the music released on most of those new SACD releases may not be to everyone’s musical taste. Still, that’s over 2,800 new SACD titles released in 4 years. In 2019, SACD's 20th year, as of today, approximately 525 new SACD titles have been released (including the imminent release of the 4 awaited Dire Straits titles on Mobile Fidelity). We’re very close to 14,000 SACD releases total worldwide since the format’s inception.
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