Well, they would say that wouldn't they - they're trying to make money out of it.
Recently, Musical Fidelity did a recording of the same concert on three formats - analogue, digital and DSD for putting onto vinyl, cd and sacd. The results were interesting. SACD was only slightly better than CD, where as the best by a long shot was vinyl which was found to be quite erry in it's life likeness. The quote from the results was something like "If you prefer digital, then quite frankly you're deaf". I've listened to some SACD and a DVD-A players and they come no where near that to my AVID turntable (which isn't yet upgraded to what it could be) playing decent vinyl recordings. Funny really, that such an old and supposidly primitive method of music reproduction still sounds so much better! SACD is hardly the latest up and coming breakthough either. It's been out for ages and is thoughly struggling to capture the attention of the mass public. Truth is, few people really cares about sound quality. That's why Dixons can sell silly midi systems, or Mp3 has become so popular. Convience is everything to most people. > > > Ok - it's been kinda slow today so I figured I'd pass this > along. Not sure if it's been discussed on the list before > > The latest up and coming audio breakthrough - SACD's will use > digital stream recording to reproduce sound. It's for all > those people who scream that cd's suck because they cannot > reproduce analog sound like vinyl does. Well... apparently > these things can. > > Here's a quote: > "DSD recording captures complete information from the best of > today's analog mixing consoles, ensuring a performance > unrivaled by any other recording system; digital or analog. > Because the SACD format allows for multi-channel recordings > to be stored on disc with no down-conversion to stereo, the > full quality of each of the DSD channels is preserved." > > Read the complete article - > http://www.sacd.philips.com/d_technology.php#multi > > Cheers! > > G > > ---------------------------------- > website: www.gerald-matrix.com > contributor - kick magazine (www.kickmagazine.ca) > host of 'equinox radio' on l'electrique @ www.netmusique.com > > >
