Despite the SACD's ability to delivery the best sound possible (some of them do, and others don't, unforunately), the long term survivability of the medium itself is in question. There are reasons galore for this, including an apparent rejection of the medium from many who've never even heard it (!), but one that is destined to doom the SACD to oblivion is the exceedingly difficult process one has to follow in order to simply purchase an SACD!

First, forget about going to a retail store: asking a sales cretin at either Circuit City or Best Buy if they sell SACD's is a question met with a vacant stare, and the inevitable question, "What's an SACD?"

You can go to telarc.com, amazon.com, AcousticSounds.com and sa-cd.net to buy up to 5,000 discs, but once you get to some of these sites (especially the last two mentioned), you'll find navigating the site(s) a royal pain in order to try to find whatever you may be interested in. Having to scan through roughly 900 "pages" online of discs, listed in no order whatsoever is an excercise in frustration, to say the least. That's sort of like going to a record store, and having to look through bins and bins of records of all varieties of music, all just lumped in together.

While my listening preferences are classical, I also enjoy a good deal of popular music, and would really like to know what's available on SACD without spending hours scanning through page after page of unorganized listings of tons of other stuff I have no interest in.

It sould seem that to , at the very least, alphabetize the list, would make searching a lot easier, but I have yet to find any site that does even that. Since both AcousticSounds and sa-cd.net seem to prominently feature the sale of SACD's, one would think they'd have known better. Oh well, some day.....