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Survival of SACD and Survival of the Discerning Listening Experience

Logging on regularly to this board and reading about the threat to SACD's survival has gotten me thinking. Long before SACD was introduced, I have felt that CD can never deliver a satisfactory range of expressive nuance, instrumental colour, dynamics and presence for convincing reproduction of classical music or Jazz, no matter how good the speakers and amplifiers. CD is always a letdown when it tries to convey the music of the great composers and Jazz legends.

SACD came in 1999 and showed how it had the potential to deliver great music with heart and soul intact. I have written articles in PF magazine about how I sold off all my CDs and started an SACD collection. This collection is now 800 titles strong, filled with great music that is superbly recorded (I never buy SACDs just for sonic quality.) I don't play any CDs on my hifi system. However I do listen to CDs on my car stereo.

For me, when SACD goes, so does any opportunity for me to enjoy to great music in High Fidelity. For me, I find it ridiculous to feed a great amplifier and speaker system with a CD source. A good system just shows up how constricted and strangled CD sounds when attempting to reproduce music. If SACD goes, I would still listen to great music on CD on a regular system, but there would be just no point in seeking after quality reproduction anymore.

Of course there is vinyl, which sounds great on Jazz and Pop, but I could not tolerate the clicks and pops during quiet passages of classical music, nor changing sides every two movements of a symphony or sonata. Kind of spoils the illusion for me.

The whole world could revert to CD or descend to MP3. I'll hang on to my SACD collection as tightly as I hold on to high-fidelity musical reproduction of great music.

Those who appreciate subtle distinctions in timbral shades, dynamic scale and expressive nuance would know what I'm referring to.

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Topic - Survival of SACD and Survival of the Discerning Listening Experience - DkB 10:32:46 05/18/06 (85)
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