SACD and DVD-A dead, but K2HD is HERE!!!?!!?!?

[nightflier]

SACD may still be in ICU but I think we can safely call DVD-A's time of death. I still see SACD new releases but I haven't seen anything from DVD-A in quite sometime. SACD is still a nitch, it will be interesting to see if HDMI connection will give it more life.

Not if the new high def players (BR & HD-DVD) don't support the format. It also looks like a lot of vendors are dropping players with SACD compatibility for some reason.

That said, SACD is definitely in ICU, although I doubt if this new format will sign it's DNR papers. It will probably live on for years in a vegetative state, perhaps as long as classical music survives....

[jrhymeammo]

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Do you recommend any specific Jazz CD by Mapleshade Records? From what I've read, if they produced SACD, they could be incredible...

JRA

[nightflier]

Do you recommend any specific Jazz CD by Mapleshade Records? From what I've read, if they produced SACD, they could be incredible...JRA

Mapleshade makes some excellent recordings. I've been very impressed with the quality, although they don't do SACD, XRCD, HDCD, or any of the other acronyms out there except RBCD. But they do it well, the only drawback is that most of the artists are ones that they like and that means pretty much Blues and Jazz. I have all their classical (if you can call it that) CDs, but for Jazz I thought that THE J STREET JUMPERS: Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby (http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/cds/05452.php) and THE REDWINE TRIO: Baby Won’t You Please Come Home (http://www.mapleshaderecords.com/cds/10632.php) are very well recorded. It's not Coltrane or Coleman type jazz, but it's well done.

[Woochifer]

Not if the new high def players (BR & HD-DVD) don't support the format. It also looks like a lot of vendors are dropping players with SACD compatibility for some reason.

That said, SACD is definitely in ICU, although I doubt if this new format will sign it's DNR papers. It will probably live on for years in a vegetative state, perhaps as long as classical music survives....

At this point, all I care about is Sony keeping their hybrid CD/SACD production lines up and running long enough for the SF Symphony to release the final two discs in their Mahler series.

The SFS started recording the Mahler cycle the day after 9/11 (that monumental performance of the "Tragic" Sixth Symphony won the symphonic performance Grammy in 2003), and they recorded the unfinished Tenth Symphony and short songs last fall. But, they don't plan to record the epic Eighth (Symphony of a Thousand) until 2009, and they usually wait at least a year before releasing the discs.

Given that they went through the trouble of recording and mixing all the performances in multichannel DSD and already released the other eight Mahler symphonies in 5.1 SACD, it would be a shame if the final release was limited to two-channel CD.

SACD's flatlining, but I doubt that K2HD will have any part of further deep sixing the format, given that JVC's K2 releases (i.e. XRCD and XRCD2) have been around longer than either DVD-A or SACD.

[pixelthis]

At this point, all I care about is Sony keeping their hybrid CD/SACD production lines up and running long enough for the SF Symphony to release the final two discs in their Mahler series.

The SFS started recording the Mahler cycle the day after 9/11 (that monumental performance of the "Tragic" Sixth Symphony won the symphonic performance Grammy in 2003), and they recorded the unfinished Tenth Symphony and short songs last fall. But, they don't plan to record the epic Eighth (Symphony of a Thousand) until 2009, and they usually wait at least a year before releasing the discs.

Given that they went through the trouble of recording and mixing all the performances in multichannel DSD and already released the other eight Mahler symphonies in 5.1 SACD, it would be a shame if the final release was limited to two-channel CD.

SACD's flatlining, but I doubt that K2HD will have any part of further deep sixing the format, given that JVC's K2 releases (i.e. XRCD and XRCD2) have been around longer than either DVD-A or SACD.

One thing that might help SACD is that Sony set out to make it an archival format,
also its something completely different, not just another PCM codec.
it actually makes a sine wave with ones and zeros.
What really irks me is that all of the so called "audiophiles" have been trashing
redbook for years, heres an authenic hi-fidelity format and they stay away in droves