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CD v. SACD

I was planning on buying a new CD player (Rega Jupiter 2000), when I read a few reveiws of the Sony SCD-XA777ES, which used, I could buy for about the same amount as the Rega new. I currently have an extensive CD collection, but no SACDs. My question is whether I should just go ahead and buy the Sony, or whether a dedicated CD player, like the Rega (or others at its price point) are significantly better in their CD playback. Thanks. Tom
boschtb
brianmgrarcom
1,317 posts
 
"IMO redbook CD is a flawed medium which as been fantastically tweaked to sound much better than it originally sounded."

Wow, I don't even know how to respond to that; at any rate, enjoy the music, I am!
bufus
149 posts
 
yes, redbook CD is flawed. there's a general rule of thumb in audio engineering that you can't expect to accurately reproduce any frequency above one third of your sampling rate. for redbook that would be 14.7 kHz. sounds like a flaw? try digitizing pure sine waves at 44.1 kHz and see what starts happening above 15 kHz. it starts to look like crap, not like a sine wave.
natalie
404 posts
 
Carefully read the post.
Are other CD Players significantly bette at CD Playback.
No where is SACD mentioned.
Point being you will find significantly better CD player at half the amount of the SONY which is a Horrible CD player.

At this point stick to a CD player.

DVD A may just win this battle in the end. You can play DVD A in any DVD player. Cant do that with SACD.
tbg
5,263 posts
 
Just got the Lindemann. Great sacd and cd playback.
guss2
50 posts
 
Natalie,I understand you hate Sony and have an opinion regarding their players, but don't spread false information. No you cannot play the DVDA track on anything other than a DVDA player. You can play any of the lower resolution tracks(Dolby,DTS,etc.), but you cannot play DVDA on anything other than a DVDA player; period. The same holds true for SACD. SACD's(non-hybrid), can only be played on SACD players but hybrids can be played on any SACD player, CD player and DVD player(compatable with Redbook). That puts hybrid SACD's in ten times(at least) the number of players DVDA would be compatable with. Gary.
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