A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

[Feanor]

Recently, at a number of other audio-based websites, there's been a wealth of posts once again declaring the "lowly" CD as the worst possible sonic travesty ever inflicted on mankind. The adjectives run the gamut from A to Z, and the vitriolic condemnations of such a "dreadful" medium are endless.

Yet, amidst all this, I still like the CD. I not only like it, but prefer it to analog. (Making a statment like that on the other sites is enough to get me shot!)
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That the SACD's performance tops all of these by the degree that it does, but sometimes, regrettably, doesn't (for the same reasons some CD's sound so awful), and hasn't received the degree of enthusiasm once reserved for far less incremental improvements in fidelity is a downright shame.

And, that's my thought for the day....

Well, most of the way.

I have no practical use for LPs. I think any decent CD recording trumps vinyl. (Granted, I'm talking about well-recorded CDs, not the early, direct transcriptions from masters made for LP.) I don't know and will never find out what it will be like to listen to $10,000 vinyl kit like that snot O'Shag's, much less a $40,000 vinyl kit like Bernd's. So "ultimate" vinyl capability is irrelevant to me

As for SACD, it's great. Although personally I think the real advantage is multi-channel. What I really hate is the apparent reality that SACD might fail because vinyl Ludites reject it in a continued, if misplaced, loyalty to the LP.