SACD or DVD Audio, which one is winning the race?

IMO both will survive for a very long time, but neither will "thrive" . I went with a universal player, so I can enjoy Stevie Ray Vaughn on SACD and Steely Dan on DVDA. Hybrid SACD's give SACD's an edge, but most DVD player's will offer DVDA capability so who knows....But if you want me to pick a winner............It will be Redbook, the masses barely understand pro logic, let alone 5.1 or 7.1 channel inputs..........

Sorry that nobody answered your question; nor can I.

I am sure that at the moment SACD's are winning by a lot, but that could change. I hope not, because I have jumped on the SACD bandwagon.

To comment on Budrew's comment that most, but not all SACD players are mediocre:
I bought the Marantz SA-14 SACD player to replace my older Krell CD system. Properly tweeked, it is fantastic on CD's. Although it does fine with SACD's, it actually is probably a better CD player than SACD player. John Marks, of Stereophile and John Marks Records, uses it as his reference (if one can't spend $37,000 for a player).

Richard

Boy, I'm more confused as ever, but I've got a feeling that the SACD format is a winner among Audiogon'rs. Still, somewhere in back of my mind, I can't stop feeling how a higher capacity DVD can be beaten by a lower capacity SACD (at least that's what I've heard, but correct me if I'm wrong) in the future where the trend among the audiophiles has always been "the higher the resolution, the better." But well, for now I'll probably stick with one of those lower priced hardwares as suggested by some and see what will happen in the future between these two formats.

any win will be temporary..hddvd video and audio will be coming in early 2004....here we go again

Have certainly heard of Hi Def DVD Video, but is their really Hi Def DVD Audio ?