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SACD on-the-cheap
You can get SACD on the cheap with the highly regarded Sony CE595 player. The great reviews prompted me to pick one up at BB for $150 but the reburbed ones on Sonystyle have been priced at well under $100. With a well recorded SACD disc this machine is equal to my MHZS F66 tube player on redbook. No doubt the dedicated 595 would trump most universal players including the Oppo.
I'd rather buy the SACD-hybrid discs as the redbook layers are much better than what you get on the regular cd versions.
As fine as Blu-ray audio is for HT it will never supplant two channel for guys like me who don't care for music played behind their back. Any musician will tell you they have the worst seat in the house.
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Originally Posted by Poultrygeist
You can get SACD on the cheap with the highly regarded Sony CE595 player. The great reviews prompted me to pick one up at BB for $150 but the reburbed ones on Sonystyle have been priced at well under $100. With a well recorded SACD disc this machine is equal to my MHZS F66 tube player on redbook. No doubt the dedicated 595 would trump most universal players including the Oppo.
I'd rather buy the SACD-hybrid discs as the redbook layers are much better than what you get on the regular cd versions.
As fine as Blu-ray audio is for HT it will never supplant two channel for guys like me who don't care for music played behind their back. Any musician will tell you they have the worst seat in the house.
WHO says Blu has to be multichannel?
As a matter of fact I have heard several BLU concert discs, and all are two channel.
AND bLU PROBABLY will "supplant " the high quality niche eventually, it has more capacity, and the sound is scary good, and thats with video concerts.
A dedicated Blu two channel format would be amazing.:1:
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I'm personally very curious to know where Compact Disc is going... It's been around for some 20 years and is still going strong even though downloads do represent a big share in the market. What will be of it in 10 years? Are stores going to close? Is every thing going to be stream/download based? Are we actually ever going to OWN the music?
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When you download from Amazon, EMusic and even iTunes now that they've given DRM the boot, you get the same ownership rights as you got when buying a CD. The fact that you own a physical disc does not mean your use of if it unrestricted - you own a copy, not the copyright.
So yeah, we're clearly headed for a downloadable musical existence. In my opinion, there's just no way physical media can compete in terms of cost, selection or convenience. CD is going the way of the LP. It's going down but there will be a niche market for people who enjoy the tactile experience.
As far as I'm concerned, the question is whether we're going to continue to pay for tracks/albums individually or whether subscription models will prevail. There are all kinds of subscription and download models being tried at the moment. Will one model win out or are we going to be stuck with a huge selection of music with a huge selection of ways to listen to it?
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Originally Posted by Kevio
When you download from Amazon, EMusic and even iTunes now that they've given DRM the boot, you get the same ownership rights as you got when buying a CD. The fact that you own a physical disc does not mean your use of if it unrestricted - you own a copy, not the copyright.
So yeah, we're clearly headed for a downloadable musical existence. In my opinion, there's just no way physical media can compete in terms of cost, selection or convenience. CD is going the way of the LP. It's going down but there will be a niche market for people who enjoy the tactile experience.
As far as I'm concerned, the question is whether we're going to continue to pay for tracks/albums individually or whether subscription models will prevail. There are all kinds of subscription and download models being tried at the moment. Will one model win out or are we going to be stuck with a huge selection of music with a huge selection of ways to listen to it?
hdtracks.com doesnt have DRM, and all of their stuff is highq , although a bit limited.:1:
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Originally Posted by audio amateur
I'm personally very curious to know where Compact Disc is going... It's been around for some 20 years and is still going strong even though downloads do represent a big share in the market. What will be of it in 10 years? Are stores going to close? Is every thing going to be stream/download based? Are we actually ever going to OWN the music?
The compact disc is going nowhere.
When I got my first computer a single CD-ROM could hold the entire 265 meg HD backup,
a 650 meg disc was hugh.
Nowadays the new "netbooks" don't even have optical drives, just card readers, but a
single SD card holds several gigs.
A CD is increasingly looking like a 2.5 meg floppy.
CD sales are sliding off of a cliff.
As for SACD, IF YOU LIKE IT GET AS MANY AS YOU CAN.
AND HURRY.:1:
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(The) SACD is Dead! Long Live (the) SACD!
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