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In Reply to: Re: "...I have 0% confidence in hybrid SACD/CDs." posted by Neil49 on April 27, 2006 at 16:40:07:
Also if it were not for the fact that I love my LPs more I would be forced to deal with these hybrid SACD problems.from my web site: HiRezStereo.com:
_________________________________________________________________________________My experience the CD/SACD hybrid play-ability:
My first SACD player was the Sony DVD-S9000ES purchased December 2000, and after 2 ½ years it totally quite playing hybrid SACD/CDs. It would either play the CD layer (yuck!) or display C-13 code and totally refuse to play the disc. Single layer SACDs, CDs and DVD-Videos played perfectly. I sold this SACD player not too long after it got back from the third time in the shop, once to my local ES shop and twice to Sony’s, it took 3 ½ months to get it fixed under warranty.
I came back to SACD with the promise of “tube quality sound†via the Xindak SCD-2. Which I had to return two times due it to not playing hybrid SACDs. If the Xindak can’t read the SACD layer it doesn’t even try to read the CD layer it just displays “undiscâ€. My 18-month warranty is now up and I am having problems again.
I bought another Sony DVP-S9000ES brand new on clearance for $575.00 to play SACDs my Xindak refuses to.
When the problem recently re-developed the Xindak would play about 9 out of 10 hybrid SACD/CDs. Then it would play 2 out of 3. And then about every other hybrid SACD/CD.
As it worsened I had to load each hybrid SACD/CD twice before the Xindax would read it then I had to load twice and turn player on and off with the hybrid SACD/CD in the player. This worked about 25% of the time. Then I had to load twice, turn player on and off and play a single layer SACD for about 5 minutes. Now my Xindak will seldom play a hybrid SACD, maybe one out of ten discs. Plus this is so frustrating as it takes the player a long time to read a SACD/CD hybrid.
By the time it takes for the Xindak to try to read the hybrid three times including turning the player off and on, playing 5 minutes of a single layer SACD and taking that out and trying it all over again, then if it fails, waiting for the “No Disc†so I can turn the player off and unplug it to reset the player. And then turn on the Sony DVD-S9000ES. During all that time with NO MUSIC I could have listened to an entire side of an LP.
The Xindak plays perfectly single layer SACDs and those CDs I hate. So most of the time I end up having to play the Hybrid SACD/CDs on the DVP-S9000ES which is a poor substitute for the wonderful sound of the Xindak.
That is until I got my first C-13 on my Sony DVP-9000ES which means dirty disc. I have played SACD/CD hybrids since then and they have all played perfectly. So this time C-13 really meant dirty disc! So for now the Sony DVP-S9000ES hybrid SACD/CDs perfectly and may do so for many years and over four years are left on it's ES warranty.
As of April 11, 2006 I have been playing Single layer SACDs only in my Xindak SCD-2 and it performs and sounds flawless! Mark Levinson says that Single layer SACDs are sonically superior to SACD/CD Hybrids.
Happy listening,
Teresa
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- If you had bothered to read further you would have found this also have found this: - Teresa 16:54:31 04/27/06 (1)
- Re: If you had bothered to read further you would have found this also have found this: - Neil49 17:14:48 04/27/06 (0)
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