Newsgroup: it.hobby.hi-fi
Titolo: in inglese sacd or not

Alcune opinioni non contestate come avviene qui con discredito.
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However, I feel that you will have to spend the same as you've spent
on your CD setup to realise the benefits of the new formats over cd. I
just don't feel that SACD/DVD-A from a cheaper machine (say £400) can
better the CD output from a good CD Player (say £1000). 
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Why do people have such high hopes for blu-ray? even if the storage
capacity of medium is increased how much of an impact is that going to
have on audio quality? they could possibly use some new form of
modulation with 64bit resolution at 1GHz sampling but remember that
even sacd and dvd-a are reaching the boundaries of human auditory
perception. like we said before, if you're using budget sacd gear you
probably wouldn't even notice an improvement compared to a more
expensive cdp with redbk. it's not because the sacd/dvd-a technology
isn't far enough surpassing redbk, it's because it's already gone past
it. 
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I have sony dvp-s9000es player. 
it's really good on SACD and not expensive these days. 
i could get scd-777es but decided not to invest too much in SACD and
felt that sound differencies between them on SACD wasn't that big. 
on RBCD 777 wastly outperfomed the 9000 but i had dedicated CD player
for that. 
it's very likely that cheap players will not do it for you. 
although you can consider to get cheap player and get it modifiyed. 
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In short I believe that at the price level of the Pioneer 656 stereo
SACD doesn't sound markedly better than CD and that most of the
current benefits currently accrue from the remastering which is being
done for newly released SACDs. This may change as the format matures
and the players get better. However, at the present time I have no
plans to replace any of the CDs which I own with SACD versions. 
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I got into this hobby just when SACD is coming around in 2001 and was
suitably impressed (at that time, I am very easily impressed  ). Got a
few hybrid SACD disc and on those disc, the SACD seems to sound better
and I thought I have made the right decision. One day, out of
curosity, I borrowed some of my friend's CD with the same song and
compared to the hybrid SACD. I was shocked to find that the CD layer
on the hybrid definitely sounded inferiior to the ordinary CD. I even
pulled out one of my burn CD-R and it's also superior. May be the CD
layer in hybrid are deliberatley made to sound inferior, I have no way
of knowing. And I gave up SACD partly because getting 2 decent
speakers already costed me a bomb, let alone 5 speakers! And don't
even get me started on 5 quality speakers cables........ 
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Ciao
    berry
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>Alcune opinioni non contestate come avviene qui con discredito.
Discredito...?
Parla come un travet bancario, i debiti lo assilleranno di certo..:-)
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