Are Sony SACD Machine Owners Crazy??

If you cannot hear the difference between CD's and SACD's, please do not spent too much money on expensive equipment. Completely take off your shopping list, speaker cables and IC's and forget power conditioners. Their have been several post addressing this issue. It is not up for debate, SACD sounds substantially better, period, end of discussion. I have read that some people say there is no difference. They either have never truley listened to SACD CD comparison (which makes them a liar!) or they have no music listening ability. Every comparison that I have done makes the music simply comes alive! This is not an option this is fact. The only problem with SACD is that all music is not recorded in SACD.

Yes we are all "nuts"! I personally hear voices that tell me to kill people. I hope these new drugs will help, what? Shut up man... I'm talking! Oh hell, I think I'll just go enjoy my SCD-1 and wonder why people think I'm nuts when there the ones with standard cd players.

What prompted those last two posts? Out of left field...

I've yet to audition SACD at home, and don't intend to do so until the format is a proven "keeper". But in regards to the post.... I have friends who swear they can't hear the difference between an MP3 and audio CD. This is regardless of the quality of the digital front end or the associated electronics. Those who can't tell the difference might be better off purchasing 8-tracks on ebay, and buying a new car rather than upgrading their systems. Hey... You can RECORD at home with the 8-track format. Try that with SACD!

Whatjd, I think several people might be responding to the delta between CD and SACD formats and not necessarily to your question. I believe you are asking about an SACD’s playback of Redbook CDs, so I'll throw in my $0.02.

From my listening experience, which is admittedly limited, I would have to agree with LFR that Redbook CD playback is not on par with mid to hi quality CD players. Many a post espousing SACD playback quality has further stated that perhaps a good outboard DAC for Redbook playback is a better option than straight out of the SACD player (Several folks have talked about the output stage quality being questionable on the 777 and SCD-1). I have seen this written more on the SCD-1 and 777 than on the Marantz SA-1 (not even sure if it was written about the SA-1), which I have never auditioned. The outboard option has intrigued me, but the expense of an SACD player and quality outboard DAC has prevented me from going this route, as of yet anyway.

My opinion, for what it’s worth.