Quote Originally Posted by E-Stat
I'll let Sir Terrence enlighten you instead. Good luck.

Will SACD make vinyl obsolete?

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I don't need luck at all.

I have never been a big fan of redbook CD, however I am a HUGE fan of multichannel DVD-A AND SACD because they come the closest to recreating a live event.

He is a big fan of multi channel music or movie sound. Me too. 2 channel just cannot reproduce the soundstage. I never claimed otherwise. Actually, 5.1 is not enough either. Tomlinson Holmann has demonstrated this too with his 10.2 system demo.




Two channel vinyl(or CD) fail meserably in this area because by shear fomat design they misplace spatial cues, and have problems with handling the harmonics of cymbal crashes(which have huge amounts of energy to 40khz) and percussive transients of drums, piano's chimes and glocks. Anytime a format rolls off the highest frequencies, it will have a horrible time with the leading edge of transients.


He is just absolutely wrong on the ultrasonic information having any meaning. He just cannot come to grips with that. I have cited very recent papers on it. His problem.

Enjoy your confusion.

Oh, make sure you apply your spelling criticism to all, or you have a hardup for me?