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A couple of perhaps tangential thoughts...

I consider the volume of SACD "survival" posts over-obsessive. The future of SACD will be what it will be, but since both it and I are in the here and now, I'm enjoying what it brings to the sonic table without worrying about whether five years from tomorrow its plug will have been pulled.

And while I'm an SACD nut, I'm not in the "all CD's suck" camp. They are what they are and, like SACD, some are better than others in conveying a sense of what composer and artist intended. I say "a sense" because no playback medium I've yet heard--vinyl, reel-to-reel, CD (in whatever jazzed-up flavor), DVD-A, HDAD, or SACD--is, no matter how much we like to pretend, "the real thing". Even "live" recorded performances reach us at home via mikes, mike cables, and (typically) mixers and are to that extent "adulterated", while a good many performances are recorded in venues that could not accommodate a concert-hall audience. So what we really get is "packaged" sound reflecting both the limitations introduced by the recording equipment and the artistry, competence, biases, and intentions of producers and engineers (some of it "whiz-bang"--for an example, read the liner notes of the well-received-here Morton Gould reading of Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite"). _That's_ all stuff we have to "listen through" even before we get to the playback format, whether it's analog or digital.

The simple fact is that listening at home--on no matter how high-end a system--requires the same suspension of disbelief we employ in reading novels. From that perspective it may be appropriate to give the playback format just a little slack in the "listening through" process. That way we might wind up enjoying more the music we bought that tape or silver or black disc for in the first place.


Jim
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