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No wonder SACD hasn't caught on

I was looking on Circuit City's website and they have over 2000 SACDs for sale. So I took some notes and then went to a local store to check things out. I wandered around in the music section and couldn't find any SACDs or DVD-As either. I thought they might have just mixed them in with the CDs but didn't have any luck locating any. So I went up to a sales person and told him that although I had seen a lot of SACDs on the website, I couldn't seem to locate any.

His response....."What's an SACD?" He looked baffled even after I explained what they were and, of course, he hadn't heard of DVD-A either. Must be the best kept secret in the music industry.
willster
pbb
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Had the same response in a Best Buy store in Vermont a few years ago. Can't find SACDs in any of these stores. Too bad, on the whole they sound great. The only ones I can find locally in record stores are classical music and the prices are quite high.
eldartford
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In my experience classical music in any format does not exist in record stores. In fact record stores have almost disappeared.

However, there are several internet dealers that I use who have a reasonable selection of SACD and DVDA. Some in Europe are excellent, and shipping cost and time is comparable to domestic dealers.
whatjd
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SACD....., well in a few years with compressed downloads and MP3 dominating, we may be saying the same thing about finding Redbook CDs.

We have a generation of Americans growing up on compressed music that has about as much to offer as the AM band....well yes a bit more an no noise, but they are not high fidelity.
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