[Scott[_6_]]

On Thursday, September 19, 2013 6:58:19 AM UTC-7, Arny Krueger wrote:
"Scott" wrote in message
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Failure? SACD is alive and well in the audiophile market.

Yes, but that is a tiny niche compared to the original intentions.

So what? This is an audiophile forum is it not? The interest here is
excellent sound no? Why is that an issue? Niche markets are often the
best source for excellent products. What do you want, carefully
crafted niche products or mass produced garbage? I'll take carefully
crafted niche products thank= you

Lot's of new SACDs coming out each week and many of them are
really well mastered. SACDs are about as dead as vinyl.

Good metaphor.

Indeed. they are now the #1 and #2 sources for excellent sounding
source material.

IOW they are the rarest of beasts, physical media that is on the rise.

When you are basically nowhere, its easy to show gains.

Vinyl is pretty far from nowhere. The bottom line is that both formats
are where one finds the majority of the best sounding new releases and
the best mastered reissues. As audiophiles does anything else really
matter?