Why No New SACD Along With New Vinyl

I think that's a really good question - I'm in the opposite boat, recently getting a nice TT and buying lots of the reissues - loving the vast majority. In any case, I find myself if I'd be just as happy if they produced SACDs of the titles I'm buying, with the notion that the (re)mastering job is far more important than the format, especially if the SACD is cheaper.

I believe Acoustic Sounds announced they'd be releasing all of their Fantasy Jazz series on SACD. The albums are just incredible, in music and master quality. I'll have to buy a couple SACDs of titles I have and test my question.

"According to the RIAA, vinyl outsells SACD and DVD-audio combined by a 4-to-1 margin. Business is business, sad to say."

If that were the case, then someone is making very poor business decisions as there were only 1 million new LP's sold last year. Compared to CD sales, LP sales aren't even a drop in the bucket. You also have to consider the fact that the RIAA counts most SACD's as CD's in their stats. A fact that would boost SACD sales above that of LP's.

"I'd also have to disagree with the statement--->"There must be as many SACD players out there as turntables. There's just no way."

I just read that there are over 13 million SACD players in public hands. Quite a lot, when you think about it. Any idea of how many working TT's are out there?

Blu-Ray is the future, seeing that there are 100 million plus PS3's out there and growing. I've tried the first Blu-Ray out, Divertiment by Trondheimsolistene, and it sounds great. Since the latter comes with a SACD version of the same music, you can compare. Sony has the largest library of master tapes from the SACD product. Now, if I can only get them to put out Miles/Blue that will be the test.

Is there such a thing as a stand alone SACD player? I would think it would be more accurate to say that there are 13 million CD players that can also play SACDs. And how may CD players are owned that do not play SACDs? SACD is dead or will die very soon if only because Sony don't support it any more, and Wal-Mart doesn't sell them. Eight tracks, MDs, DATs, SACD, DVD-A. We've moved on.

SACD for all intents and purposes is dead. Sony is not supporting it anymore. Also it seems, that vinyl is making a serious resurgents. I got friends that just a few years back were jumping on the SACD bandwagon, and just about all of them are now mostly into vinyl. Could it be that in someways that digital based discs are like Japanese motorcycles, while vinyl is more a Harley-Davidson? By this analogy, I mean from a technical sense while a good digital based disc system is probably more accurate, there just something about listening to music through a good vinyl system that really draws the listener into the music.

BTW, you would think that most of the interest in vinyl recordings would be from guys like myself who are in their mid-50s and grew up with vinyl and have/had large record collections. But one of the things that I'm finding interesting, is the interest in vinyl recordings from a younger crowd of music listeners, who by and large never grew up with vinyl. Who knows, maybe some of these I-pod wearing, MP-3 listening kids have gotten such a severe case of digalitis, that they're ready for a more analog approach to their music, then again it could be just a "retro" thing.