An SACD question

I find the SHM cds universally superior.

Good point Mrtennis,, I use Audio Research's latest greatest DAC ( DAC8 ), the sound is not like SACD in many ways but it is very good. I hate to say it's analog like, as those terms get used far to loosely, but the sound is far beyond using the CD player ( Ayre C5exMP ) by itself.
The need to have music on SACD also lessens when I consider the higher cost and that many of the SACD's I own sound no better than there red book counterparts.

Well at least this thread insipred me to go SACD shopping. Picked up 5 x 2L Nordic disc releases, 2 Channel Classics, and threw in one Jazz release for good measure. Some of this stuff is rediculously cheap ($10 + $3 shipping on Amazon market for a 2L release).

Still buying and plan on continuing to do so.

Enjoy!

let me throw out the gauntlet.

let someone provide a good quality sacd player. i am confident i can find a tubed player or dac, which is redbook based over a most solid state sacd players.

if the sacd player is tube based, perhaps i would prefer the sacd medium.

if the sacd player is a solid state device, i think i could find tubed digital hardware using the hybrid layer.

perhaps an example would be the original zanden dac, which i find hard to beat.