Notice how many SACD collections for sale?

Yeap, vinyl's dying as well!

I don't care one bit about comments that anything is dying, but I do think some try to be at the front of the wave.

I have been so impressed with the improvements with the RealityCheck on redbook that I wonder about how wise it is to buy further sacds. I made a RC copy of the hybrid redbook layer of a favored sacd. Comparing the sacd with the RC redbook leads me to favor the redbook, although the sacd sounds smoother and with a wider, less forward sound stage. It is just not a real sounding as the RC redbook.

Will I sell my 500 sacds? Probably not as there may be further improvements in reading them as there have been for redbook.

Having listened carefully to CD, SACD, XRCD, and 33 & 45 rpm vinyl, I don't understand the fetish for vinyl, an older technology that entails additional electro-mechanical transduction processes. Nor do I understand the fetish for tubes as valves that rely on the heating of an element. I suspect it may be part of a popular movement from rational explanation to mysticism that seems to have arisen during the last decade or so. I hope that movement goes away.

Many of you refer to your interest in high-end audio as a hobby, rather than as a means to the end of enjoying music, and in that sense I can understand those fetishes, because vinyl and tubes are so much higher maintenance, and turntables and arms make attractive toys.

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I don't care one bit about comments that anything is dying, but I do think some try to be at the front of the wave.

I have been so impressed with the improvements with the RealityCheck on redbook that I wonder about how wise it is to buy further sacds. I made a RC copy of the hybrid redbook layer of a favored sacd. Comparing the sacd with the RC redbook leads me to favor the redbook, although the sacd sounds smoother and with a wider, less forward sound stage. It is just not a real sounding as the RC redbook.

Will I sell my 500 sacds? Probably not as there may be further improvements in reading them as there have been for redbook.

Wait a minute ...is this a episode of Monty Python that I missed entitled "the Audiophiles that say nah"?! Are you fellows kidding me? Better check your statistics on Lp record sales, vinyl is grabbing a larger market share every year. Read your Billboard. Some of you old soaks feel that the world is heading to hell in a handcart while the rest of us are enjoying a heyday in the Lp format with new, reissued, and a strong used market as well. Quite frankly my purchases are through the ceiling. People are selling Lps, SACD's, and everything else because the economy stinks, it's not the format.
Vinyl is dead?! You fellows are so eighties...
Cheers!