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In Reply to: SACD is still DeadDisc . OTOH , Warner's Jason Mraz - Mr. A-Z , available on DualDisc with DVD-Audio , debuts at #5 ... posted by ZS KEKL on August 7, 2005 at 16:55:05:
Here we go again round the prickly pear...Well I have equipment to listen to all the formats. I have yet to listen to a DualDisc. Sorry I can't offer my views on the media. However, excellent recordings will sound good no matter the format. Just listen to the recordings by Reference Recordings, Water Lily, Delos, Dorian, Tacet, Opus 3, and others. I have DVDAs that sound very good and SACDs that sound very good. I have DVDAs that sound terrible and SACDs that sound terrible.
Perhaps the rebirth of the RCA/BMG Living Stereo in SACD has a lot to do with the excellent quality of the original recordings. The same with the Mercurys and Vanguards. It seems that the SACD is geared mostly at the classical and jazz audiophile because of the excellent acoustic recordings available and many of the new classical recordings are being done in SACD perhaps due to SACD's higher resolution which is great for revealing the recording space (stage) in acoustic recordings (However, on many good DVDA recordings the recording space is similarly portrayed). Sorry again, I do not listen to rock or other similar kinds of music, so I can not offer my view on recordings of such music. Perhaps other persons can comment on the relative virtues of different media for rock recordings.
So, Mr. ZS KEKL, do not disparrage other formats just because. Do illustrate what are the virtues of DualDisc (not DVDA, of which I am well aware of its virtues) versus other media and perhaps we shall all listen to you quietly and carefully. Sales statistics do not mean acoustical and/or musical superiority.
That said, it seems to me that the future of media will be one with high-resolution audio and high resolution video, just to make life more manageable to most of buyers of audio and video equipment. Whether that media will be DVDA, DualDisc, an SACD format that incorporates video or a non moveable media (solid state chips with high capacity and no compression) remains to be seen.
In addition, I have just read J. Peter Moncrieff review of the McCormack UDP-1 universal player. In that review Mr. Moncrieff analyses the two opposing formats (DVDA and SACD) and he favors the former due to some engineering and acoustical considerations. I am not an engineer, so perhaps those asylum inmates who are engineers can comment on Mr. Moncrieff views. Mr. Moncrieff's article can be found at: www.iar-80.com/page102.html.
Happy listening!
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