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SACD - Dying already?

I just read the industry blurb in this month's TAS which described how it seems the stream of SACDs from Sony has pretty much dried up. I was in the largest local independent record store in my area last week and actually bought a SACD because it was music not available on CD. The SACD/DVD-A section was a bit smaller than a year ago and I asked the manager about it. He laughed and said they only sell 2-3 a month combined and he doesn't order many anymore.

Except for audiophiles, is anyone buying these things? Or, are all hopes and dreams of SACD slowly fading away (for at least Sony)?
tomryan
desmond1cd85
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Robm321, if you read the post closely I said in some cases that SACD sounds better than vinyl. As you are aware there are many poor pressings of vinyl and some exceptional recorded SACDs. I have a large collection of vinyl, well over 8000 lps and over 20K in my analog playback system so I can appreciate vinyl. All I was saying is that SACD sounds wonderful, hell in some cases my car radio sounds better than some of my records.By the way, have you listened to SACD in a good system?
tomryan OP
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What is vynil?
viggen
838 posts
 
Cough suryp?
robm321
932 posts
 
Yes, I've listened to a good SACD system and some SACDs are recorded badly some CDs are recorded badly and some vinyl is recorded badly. What was the point of comparing a well recorded SACD to a badly recorded LP? Where were you going with that?

To my ears SACD does sound better than CD - it is very impressive. But Sony isn't gonna make its numbers selling SACDs to audiophiles -- and non-audiophiles don't care about small sound improvements (they won't notice it oh their systems anyway - so IMHO (ok maybe not so humble) SACD is dying.

I hope I'm wrong. I am tired of cleaning my records. But at this rate by 2020 maybe SACD will line the shelves of record stores... or will it be DVD-A or a newly invented product?????
andy2
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I think the root cause of everything bad today is that people are becoming more and more machine like. A few years from now and most people can't even spell the word conscience.
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