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In Reply to: A candid exchange with John Atkinson: posted by regmac on March 8, 2004 at 08:32:08:
Hello Reg,
Thanks for the post.
The fact that you have not heard the difference between SACD and CD is in fact, as you mentioned, because you haven't heard a decent SACD player.
I don't think one can be had for under $2,000.00. If you track that $2,000.00 pricing back through the dealer/distributor/manufacturer route, you'd probably find that the player was worth about $500.00 or less. This player may have SACD decoding in it, but the quality of engineering and parts is seriously compromised by the fact that they're making the player to sell at a certain price point.
Coincidentally, I just read your post after having sat down for an hour, comparing some redbook CD songs vs. the same song on SACD. There ARE differences; the quality of SACD playback is better, and it's obvious if you know what to listen-for, but it's not all that hard to hear. (That's assuming that the original recording was done properly; there's a lot of SACD versions of albums out there that just weren't all that good in the first place!)
But, ahem, the SACD player I was listening-to is worth over $10,000.00!! Now, I don't think you'd have to pay that much to get good performance, but everything else in the system must be "up to snuff" in your system, or you could lose that little extra precious detail that you're paying-for. The Law of Diminishing Returns definitely applies here.
So, blind testing would not be a problem for experienced or even unexperienced listeners, if the system used is good enough. So, of course, that leads to an obvious inference here: SACD is not worth it unless you get a really good player, and yes, a lot of people who buy cheap SAD players are probably getting ripped-off by the Marketing Hype that surrounds SACD.
Now that is something that would be interesting for a magazine publisher to say, but it probably won't happen (publicly), because the people behind all that marketing are paying to keep those magazines in existence.
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Follow Ups
- You're right - a $2,000.00 SACD player isn't good enough - golden_ears 03/8/0409:32:45 03/8/04 (6)
- I hear difference in my $200 DVP-NS755V, and $2000 SCD-XA777ES... - Jim Stoneburner 12:13:57 03/8/04 (4)
- So did you actually adjust the output levels so both formats and players - rick5 12:23:33 03/8/04 (3)
- Re: So did you actually adjust the output levels so both formats and players - Kal Rubinson 13:46:21 03/8/04 (1)
- Ditto [nt] - Ted Smith 16:45:52 03/8/04 (0)
- Re: So did you actually adjust the output levels so both formats and players - Dave Kingsland 13:20:15 03/8/04 (0)
- Re: You're right - a $2,000.00 SACD player isn't good enough - regmac 09:52:41 03/8/04 (0)
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