Quote Originally Posted by Kevio
I thought the main benefit of SACD was the care taken in making the recordings. They know, as a SACD customer, you expect good sound quality. Record companies take extra care in production to make sure it sounds good. In short, it's not so much about the delivery technology as it is abut the recording technology and production expertise that goes into SACD releases.
Yes, that and multi-channel.

If you haven't heard a good m/c SACD played on a decent, properly set up m/c system, you are missing something. It delivers a simulation of reality that stereo simply cannot.