Is SACD a dead format?

prompted by this thread and an email exchange with one of the site members who began doing mods to the samsung/toshiba machines i have purchased the toshiba for a paltry $80 from amazon.

having lived without a CD player for many a moon now, happily subsisting on vinyl and the local FM airwaves, i now see a reason to re-embrace the technology on a sensible level :-) i've always loved how my one and only DSD recording, tony williams "young at heart" sounds on redbook players, and it's worth the price of admission to hear this one and only disc as it was meant to be heard (post-mods of course). my thanks to the individual who initiated this thread.

Ben, the sonic difference of SACD converted me long
time ago to SACD,I even spend close to 2k, to mod
my SonyDVP9000es,I just read your arguments between
Rsbeck, that was two years ago,I totally agree with
Him,obviously up to now, you have not heard a good
SACD player,I want you to read the thread of AVguru
Is there any CDP Significantly Better than The DV50.
Are you Anti SACD? If you are, I respect that.But
you cannot convince me that SACD is not better than
Redbook.Try to listen to Mark Levinson DSD, SACD cd. If
you still cant hear the difference,you need an EENT.
I have collection of 100SACD, thats more than enough
for me.Go to Music Direct store, and you will see
How much SACD they have on their cd rack.
Lastly I own the NJOE Tjoeb with upsampler, very
musical player, but no match with my Sony9000es SACD
mod.It takes 3 days before I can go back and listen
to my AH, after listening to the Sony.Listening to
SACD, its like listening to vynil.
If ever you come to Chicago, you are more than welcome
to stop by my house to listen, I will pay the taxi, or
pick you up.

I ran out to Best Buy today, and picked up about 15 SACD's at dirt cheap prices. Both the SACD and DVD-A sections seem to be on closeout.

Soundwise, SACD is much easier to listen to than redbook on my rig. Although the meitner is very very good on redbook, SACD, when mastered correctly, to my ears, is on a different level.

I noticed the Bill Evans sacds must no longer be in production. They are approx $28 on Amazon. I can not find them anywhere in the brick and mortar stores, most importantly, my local cd/record shop that always has everything.

Jayctoy, I don't have experience with more expensive players but I have a Pioneer 563. It is hard to tell a difference between this player and my Njoe Tjoeb.