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Is HDCD dead?

I'm looking at players on this site and hardly none of them seem to encode "HDCD".Is this used in some of the newer players yet?In the past the cd's that had the HDCD label on them all sounded better than regular redbook cd's.Why are'nt more players using this technology.Does anyone have a list of players that use HDCD encoding?
spaz
perfectionist
197 posts
 
Naim players do HDCD...
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pehare
835 posts
 
no but alot of the DEAD are on HDCD.....Cary = HDCD
ludimagis
128 posts
 
The 15 or so that I have all sound better than standard rb
on any of the non HDCD players that I have had. To me they are similar to a remastered rb.
I think all cd will go the way of cassette; eventually.
hack
185 posts
 
Shanling supports HDCD and I do prefer it to "normal" redbook or upsampled digital music.
spaz OP
105 posts
 
A/B any of the red book grateful dead cd's(and mo fi) to the HDCD and see what happens.The HDCD's blows them out of the water.Thats if your player has HDCD.I could not beleive the difference in these recordings.I'm 100% sold on HDCD.It's to bad not more people can hear the difference.I'm using an ancient Sonic Frontiers cd-1 with old technology and this player still holds it's own against Some of players made today.
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