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XRCD vs. SACD anyone?

Last week I got myself a couple of XRCDs and was quite surprised to find how significantly better they sounded vs. my regular cds, including ones which were classified as audiophile cd.

I don't have a SACD player, so I have yet to try out a SACD to find out how they sound. I have a few friends who have tried both XRCD and SACD, and they seem to prefer XRCD.

Does anyone have experience with both, and which format do you prefer?

Thanks for sharing your experience.
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cornfedboy
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bob: hdcd is just another flavor of redbook, not a seperate format. it is incompatible with upsampling dacs, that work on ALL cd's. moreover, hdcd was never adopted by a number of the big guns in the highend for a whole variety of reasons. -cfb
sugarbrie
3,854 posts
 
I think Pacific Microsonics (HDCD) was purchased by Bill Gates, so it will probably be part of Windows XP (Version 2) for doing your own multimedia on your computer.
killerpiglet
374 posts
 
So we can expect out cd players to start randomly restarting...

KP
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