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In Reply to: I think you miss the point..... posted by theaudiohiffle on June 4, 2006 at 08:56:21:
I am not arguing here but i am in a prime position to see first hand what goes on behind the scenes. First of all, until DSD become a user friendly format for mid level recording studios (meaning that you don't have to run through the "selected and choice (overpriced) facilities for rendering") then the format itself is simply impractical. Right this moment, most mid level and small recording studios can make you a dvd-a in house. No recording studio to my knowledge in the world can make an sacd IN HOUSE. The mastering process must be done by those who have the capability and the cost of such mastering is 7+ times more expensive than what mid level studios charge. The you have the absorbant pressing charges. It simply is not practical for a recording studio that is doing a $6000.00 dollar project ablum to even consider SACD at all. Their is so much fantastic music being produced today that will *never* see the light of SACD/DSD due to the "good old boy" rules imposed. And mark my words, BD 'Will' have video. The way the consortum has "acted" over the last 6 years of BD developement should speak VOLUMES here.
Of course people like Ray Kimber can have an SACD made. He can afford to. A musician does not see the viability unless they have major capital behind the production. Even then with sales figures of SACD in "dismal" proportions (vinyl even outsold it last year) their is no use. And BD is yet *another format*.I can have a guitarist come into any of the dozens of facilities in my town, lay her tracks, sing, get a clean 24/96K mixdown and make a dvd-a of the works right here, right now for 25cents cost (of the blank) and play it through my system with no resolution loss that happens with CD. I looked in to what it would take to have a few of these master reference recordings put on an SACD. First of all, I was met with an attitude and a screening process. Then the minimum order and cost was close to 5 damned digits. This my friends goes a long way toward any format gaining any level of commercial viability.
What are midlevelstudios to do? They basically DON'T and this is where the problem lies.You can have all the channels you want in DSD on a BD disc but if the technology is not ready, waiting and accessable to mid level facilities struggling to get an artist heard (like dvd-a has been for quite some time) then we have a "closed format". I have had dozens of DVD-A's sent to me from various studios (fabulous sound) to let me hear the musicians and groups.
---Did VHS kill movie. box office sales? NO.
---Does the ability to makea CD/DVD-A in an home studio of a local artist kill the record industry? NO
---Do you see any local artist when poised with the choices as presented this very day, selecting SACD *over* CD or DVD-A?NO!
Just remember, they ALL were local artists once.
Does this make any sense what-so-ever?
And here we are with yet another set of formats foradisc (they all have not even been sorted out after 6 years) trying to gain space within the industry. MUSIC is the LAST thing on their minds. HR/Video is #1, then computer useage and storage.
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- Can *these* points be seen at all? - ontrack2@gmail.com. 11:03:34 06/04/06 (1)
- Re: Can *these* points be seen at all? - graemme 14:29:06 06/04/06 (0)
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