Is HDCD dead?

Shanling supports HDCD and I do prefer it to "normal" redbook or upsampled digital music.

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.

Funny, I went to look at a Naim player and loved what it was doing on HDCDs, but the Electrocompaniet was better on other discs due to upsampling.

I've got the Cary on the short list as well.

And I'll second the comments about how well the HDCD discs sound, even on players that don't decode the full process.

My former PS Audio DAC had HDCD decoding, which sounded good on all 5 of my cd's with HDCD. My new Northstar Design DAC doesn't have HDCD decoding and sounds way better with the 495 cd's that are not HDCD decoded. So....

Generally I love the HDCD playback on my Cary 303/300. It can be a little edgy with some material, but where it is edgy it appears to be due to the mastering of the disc rather than the Cary. Of course, running it through the tube output takes that edginess right off on the few discs that don't sound better in HDCD.