On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:56:50 GMT, "Dimiter Petsev"
wrote:

As demonstrated, this is hogwash. DSD and DVD-A have nothing in common,
except the physical size of their consumer media... Oh, and DVD-A is a
dysmal failure, while DSD is doing quite well as a high end format.

The thing is that apart from the emotions that usually go with the DVD-A vs
SACD argument I have not seen a single one that is in favor of SACD and is
really scientifically based. On the contrary there are a number of
convicning articles out there claimign that DVD-A is better and DSD is
flawed as Stewart Pinkerton claims. I posted a link sometime ago to one

http://www.sound.westhost.com/cd-sacd-dvda.htm

and here is another

http://www.minnetonkaaudio.com/pdfs/...le%20paper.pdf

The authors are quite reputable in my opinion. Now before spending money on
some top of the line SACD or DVD-A player I would like to collect as much
information as possible and I have not found anything yet to make me buy a
SACD player. If threre is some I will be happy to learn more, honestly.

Luckily, the trend is to 'universal' players which handle all formats
in an exemplary manner, prime examples being the Pioneer DV-868 (Elite
DV-59 in the US) and the Denon 2900. Note that neither of these
suffers either the markup or the technical incompetence of the
so-called 'high end' brands....................
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