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I guess that birthday is not so happy

A few of things as it seems to me.

First, technically there never was a good case that SACD was superior to high-resolution PCM.

Secondly, Sony, as usual for the company, abused its quasi-monopoly power by trying by controlling licensing of SACD technology -- shades of the failure of the Beta video format.

Many audiophiles were able or particularly interested in multi-channel which ability SACD could provide. As I recall(?), early Sony player could only play SACDs, not CDs.

Sony considered the extreme difficulty of copying, i.e. ripping SACD disks to be an important advantage of the medium. Early SACDs weren't hybrid, that is, they lacked a CD layers and could not easily be ripped. IMHO, the effective copy-protection of the SACD layers hurt acceptance of the medium in the longer term.

And yet many Classical music recordings are still multi-channel and distributed on SACDs. That's a good thing, but it would be better if Sony allowed ripping those discs to


Dmitri Shostakovich

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