Is SACD a dead format?

The catalogs of the audiophile centric record/disc sellers I get seem to point in the direction that SACD is gaining some traction with the smaller audiophile labels. A good thing, I think, as a grassroots movement that turns out music that is looked to by audiophiles will keep at least a trickle of things coming for us.

Whatever happened to Sony and some others I have heard converting their CD stamping facilities to hybrid CD/SACD processing?

On the sad note, I noticed in Stereophile that Sony Music went to a conference with the intention of throwing their support behind DVD-A. If I were the head of Sony, my head honcho at Sony Music would be called into the office and read the riot act (including the proviso that a bloodletting would result the next time I heard even an inkling of such a thing).

SACD was a stop gap profit scheme for Sony, they milked audiophiles and technophiles who bought unneccesary equipment and have incompatible software.

DVD-A is the future format, always was and always will be. CD is already had its day and if you ask any manufacturer how hard it is to get a CD transport these days you would know. Luckily DVD transports are compatible with CD's!

Sony is a four letter word for a reason, and yet another exploitation of the buying public buy Sony with a technology which was dead end from the day it was released.

Until you have a compatible standard digital output on any of these new technologies they technically don't exist, so DVD-A really does not exist yet. Its in mid birth.

Oh! and by the way, the improvement in the formats had nothing to do with expanding bits, but expanding channels.

Its likely the thought of a spinning disc and all its problems will be laughable concept ten years from now.

This seems like deja vu...!
Remember the era of the BETA vs. VHS war...?

Cinematic Systems if you were actually switched onto music rather than gear you'd realise how silly your CD has had it's day theory.

Do you actually buy any music?

I've listened to highend SACD Players, High End DVD-Audio, and CD- all in my system. For Stereo listening, my Exemplar 2900 in CD mode is still preferred for most listening. Is SACD good? Yes. DVD-A? Sometimes good. Does DVD-A outperform CD? Not at my house.

For surround music- well, I believe surround is best left to movie soundtracks. I've NEVER heard music in surround that equalled- much less bettered- my stereo rig. That's why my Stereo is upstairs, and my Home Theater is downstairs.

Of course, Cinematic may disagree- but his moniker is Cinematic Systems, after all :)