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HDCD a flash in the pan already??

I started looking for a new CD Player a while back but put the search on the backburner for a bit(needed a new sub & picked up a Onix Rocket UFW-10)so now it's back to CD Player hunting and it seems to me there are less HDCD players coming out then when I orginally researched. For example the new Music Player 25.2 isn't HDCD ready where the CD-25 was nor is Onix's best CD Player CD-2(their lower one xcd-99 is). Even though they're out of my price range players newly released players like the Rega Apollo,Cambridge Azur 640 or Naim CD5i do not appear to be HDCD. Is this another format that isn't going to make it or just a option on lower end players. I was recently at a couple local CD stores (Borders, Fye and Barnes and Noble) and there were at the most 3 HDCD Cds there none of which I would be interested in.. Starting to seem like HDCD shouldn't even be an option to look for in my CD Player search.. Any comments?
pmt1209
pmt1209 OP
44 posts
 
I didn't realize there were that many HDCD CDs out there, even CDs I looked at such as Claptons Chronicles was HDCD but wasn't marked HDCD. Leave it to Microsoft to put a damper on it by jacking up the price for the rights to manufacturers of Players, like Bill Gates needs more money.. Still not sure now if it's worth looking for HDCD in a new CD Player..
I was hoping someone might post that the newer DATs were so good that everything played through them sounded as good or better then HDCD quality :)
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tbg
5,263 posts
 
Tvad, at least we can agree on this. Since my Lindemann some time ago, I have sought players that decode HDCD. Now that Winston Maw of FIM is issuing mainly in HDCD, I have been buying many.

By the way, the RealityCheck improves HDCD and copies do play as HDCD.
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jsonic
227 posts
 
If anyone likes The Grateful Dead they still issue live recordings from The Dick's Picks series and other live stuff on HDCD. It sounds really good. Their studio box set remasters on Rhino also are on HDCD.
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