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Re: Survival of SACD and Survival of the Discerning Listening Experience

"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."

Having recently invested much effort in modifying my CD/SACD player, I have concluded that it's possible for RBCD replay to rise well above the threshold of nuanced musicality that you're referring to. But there are probably just a handful of products that can take RBCD to this level. What's puzzling is that though RBCD playback has only recently reached a superlative level of performance, it is possible for the first time with the best new players, to hear some older CDs sounding great(e.g. those mastered from the mid-1990s on).

Yes, SACD and vinyl are closer to the Absolute Sound, but the latest RBCD playback is incredibly good. I too have a big SACD and vinyl collection primarily in jazz. But I've pretty much stopped buying SACDs, because the difference in sonics between SACD and RBCD in my system is almost a matter of taste. And this is not due to any shortcomings in electronics. The sad thing is just how much harder it is to get a digital front end up to the level of other components in an audio system.

Dave

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