Remember when equipment manufacturers and record labels figured out they could make a lot of cash by "remastering" albums to the "new" CD format and sell us back all the albums we already owned in a new format? Remember when someone told you it cost more to produce a tape yet we're still charged more for a CD?
A lot of the hyped benefit of this strictly proprietary format relies on an adequate remastering job... back in the day of the CD's commercial birth those supposed remastering jobs were bullshit... and mostly are to this day. Buyer beware. Ryan Heard -----Original Message----- From: Kieran [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:00 PM To: Jayson B. Cc: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: [313] Future of DJ'ing, also anyone at MIDEM? On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Jayson B. wrote: ] > > there will be a new file format and it will ] > > have DVD quality sound. ] > ] >DIVX;), MPEG7?? ] ] its talking about SACD (super audio cd). There's two formats, but they do ] the exact same thing. ] ] and they're better than dvd sound. They just use a dvd player. SACD wont run on your regular DVD player, that's the truth, unless it's one of those combo ones which are just starting to surface now. In general, you'll need a new player. ] Its a five channel format that if i remember correctly, is recorded at ] 96khz. I found this on the devil's website "The sound of SACD comes directly from Direct Digital Stream (DSD) recording technology. DSD's simplified mechanism for recording and playback results in a frequency response of over 100kHz and a dynamic range over 120dB across the audible frequency range. DSD increases the resolution of music by more closely following the original wave form of the music, which results in music reproduction that is remarkably pure and faithful to the original. For additional information concerning the technology behind SACD, please link to Sony Electronics SACD In addition to exceptional sound quality through the DSD system, the SACD format can accommodate more than four times the information of the current CD format. With this extra capacity, a standard Super Audio CD will provide space for 2-channel stereo data, as well as an area for up to 6-track multi-channel data, storage capacity for text and images, disc variations, copyright protection and much more." On their site, Sony note that in the first SACD releases, Miles Davis has two.. cool.. :) There is also a DVD-Audio format starting to arise.. It wont run on a regular DVD-video player, but future DVD-audio players will also play DVD-video (must be something to do with required hardware for decoding, since DVD-audio is decompressed at 9.6 Mb/s compared to the audio in DVDs at 6.144 Mb/s. Both formats now include copywright protection. Kieran. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
