"Jack" wrote in message
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I don't own a SACD player now but buy the disks of new releases
(Goldfrapp - Supernature; Depeche Mode - Playing the Angel) as my next
player will be SACD compatible. I don't care about DVD-A, since even fewer
of them are available.

I am willing to spend say 10% more for them than for normal CD's, but not
much more.

a) Do you think SACD is doomed?

b) Have you listened to a new recording mastered for SACD from step 1
instead of an old recording converted for SACD? What was the sound like?

c) What are your thoughts on SACD in general.

You are right about DVD-A it seems to me a blind alley

Well produced SACDs are amazingly good.

My Yamaha amp DSP-AX1 (which cost serious money) does a good job of
recreating room acoutics but SACD is more real and better sounding.

Newly mastered stuff is even more amazing, listen to Dark Side of the Moon
on SACD - you will agree.

I expect SACD will die out shortly since, even though it is grand, most
people don't have (and are not prepared to pay for) decent equpment to
reproduce it on.

I hope I am wrong, but I fear I am not!

Regards, Roger