-GT* wrote:

Your statement, "And if you bothered looking, you would see that new
standard CD releases vastly outnumber SACD releases, hybrid or otherwise"
is mocking? Hardly. Just you making a comment that is irrelevant to
what I said. Say something irrelevant, GT. We're getting used to it.

Well it was mocking, ric.

Maybe you ought to look up "mocking" in the dictionary. (That's the
thick book with all the definitions in it, GT.)

You start by saying SACD equipment will become a "pile of unstandardized
junk," and when its backwards compatibility is explained to you for the
umpteenth time, you claim to be talking about marketing? No, backwards
compatibility has *NOTHING* to do with marketing.

Well it it doesn't have anything to do with marketing ric, then there
shouldn't be any need for hybrids being made, now should there...

This comment makes absolutely no sense. Backwards compatibility is
engineering, not marketing. Please try again, GT.

Your reading disability is showing again, GT. SACD compatible player.
They play normal CDs, too.

Once again, ric. Not *all* of them do. As mentioned before, the market
share for SACD, hybrid or full, is absymal. But you refuse to see that.

Name the model number for one that doesn't. And the market share for
SACDs is completely irrelevant as to whether or not SACD compatible
players will play normal CDs. You're in a rut, GT. All of your
statements are either asinine or irrelevant.

They're not limited to only SACD releases.
They have just as many choices, and more, than a regular CD player.

I'm talking about the CDs now ric, not the players. 2,000 is still a small
number. Are you really that *dense* or what....

If the players played *only* SACDs, you'd have a point. But they don't,
so you don't. Quit with your obtuse act. (I *hope* it is just an act.)

In summary:

SACDs are a low cost way to hear improved sound out of your present
stereo system. SACD compatible players will play normal CDs, too (so
your choice of music is not limited) and often DVDs as well. There is
no danger of owning a "pile of unstandardized junk" in 5 years. In
addition, hybrid SACDs (which constitute the majority of new SACD
releases) will play in standard CD players. The retail price of SACDs
is now about the same as for standard CDs, and SACD compatible CD and
DVD players are not very expensive, starting at less than $150. One
need not purchase new expensive speakers or amplifiers to enjoy the
improved sound of SACDs. SACD improvements can even be heard using
headphones. SACD/DVD-A universal players (starting at less than $500)
are also available for those of you who want to enjoy both SACDs and
DVD-As.

For more information:

http://www.superaudiocd.philips.com/...lId=N2598A3463

You may have the last word, GT. Give us your best asinine, irrelevant
comments. Then go practice your banjo.

You shall now enter my "sum1 file" (kill file.) It's been fun.