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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
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.
maineiac
649 posts
 
I remember the sacd section getting smaller each time I went to look for music at best buy.

Vinyl is the answer.
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czbbcl
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They are probably hybrids and are mixed in with all the other CD's. I would not expect the salesperson at circuit city to know anything about SACD or even what a Hybrid disc is.

SACD(Hybrid) is a small cottage industry for us audiophols no different than that of vinyl.
sogood51
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"03-04-08: Maineiac
I remember the sacd section getting smaller each time I went to look for music at best buy.

Vinyl is the answer."

I haven't been to Best Buy in a year or so, are you saying they stock Vinyl now?.

Dave
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