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Why bother with SACD when...

Posted by Stephen Murphy on March 9, 2000 at 09:17:51

Why bother with SACD when Jonathan Scull in his Stereophile review of the Sony player says "Overall, I'd rate the SCD-1 playing Super Audio CD a tad less involving than the dCS upsampling front-end. The Sony at its best---ie, with SACD recordings---still had slightly less air and transparency than the more expensive dCS duo."

I'm not saying Scull has the final word, but it seems upsampled Redbook is very close to, if not better than SACD. But what you really get with upsampling CDs is access to the zillion titles already out there. You don't have to settle for Toto and Michael Jackson discs for the next couple years.

Why aren't people clamouring for a cheaper upsampler, less than the $20,000 dCS, instead of moving to a new format? And why doesn't a cheap 24/192 upsampler exist by now?

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