What happened with the SACD format?

It's not markettable anymore neither the players too.

i buy them regularly and imo they are fantasic. the real issue is how well the music was recorded and i think many miss this point. a normal cd when well recorded is better than a badly done sacd. i have no trouble finding all sorts of offerings. of course they are a niche but niche markets do survive.

I never had even one SACD which sounded close to vinyl. None of them were able to create an illusion to be part of a live recording. Most of them are lifeless and boring....
The best CD's - by far - are theXRCD24 from JVC Japan. With an intelligent digital design, EMMLabs for example, you are indeed very close to the real thing. Anything else is still the same wot like the last 20 years ...

Thankfully, it is alive and well. Kudos to Japan for keeping the torch burning. Amazon, Ebay, and other outlets offer the SACD disc(s). The newer generation via SHM are also avail.

Wow, so many audio snobs, saddening to see/read.