I believe Sony quit pressing SACD's over a year ago. I remember that being a big announcement. If they have begun again, please enlighten me. SACD is barely surviving as a nitch product. It would be interesting to from somebody like Acoustic Sounds what their LP & SACD sales figures are. My guess is vinyl sells more than SACD.

When listening to SACD vs Redbook on high quality players and equipment I just didn't hear enough difference to warrant the trouble of getting into another format. The high end shops in this area don't show support for it either which strikes me as odd because all of them carry the players. But really the manufacturers said for get making 3 or more different format players and started making universal players so you can't help but to have something that plays SACD. This also strikes me as odd that most all manufacturers would offer a unit that at least will play SACD for a catalog of 4,999. The electronics industry is starting to look like the government when it comes to common sense. So now you can buy a universal player that does the job of at least 3 players and I'm expected to believe the sound is just as good through these all in one box units as a stand alone player. I don't think so. It strikes me odd that an audiophile faction would embrace such a universal player while thumbing their noses at a receiver. Video circuits were so degrading to audio that Bryston and Classe had HT processors with no video ins/outs. I don't know if isolation has gotten better or they caved in to sales pressure, I know Classe processors do video now, I'm not sure about Bryston.

It also strikes me odd that some one who uses the word "pecker" would be kicking back and digging on the type of music available on SACD