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ScottW wrote:
On Thursday, September 19, 2013 7:09:54 PM UTC-7, Scott wrote:
Again, so what? When I get a new SACD that is beautifully mastered and it
sounds amazing I really don't care about what people here state and
restate. I don't care what studies say. I care about superior sound and
better mastered SACDs are a great source for that.
Kind of obfuscates around the question...are they superior due to mastering
or are they superior due to the media?
Excellent question. The answer is, in my opinion, that the production
(which includes mastering) if far more important than the format
(media)! I have (and have made) CD-quality recordings that sound far
better than many SACD or other so-called high-resolution recordings. A
poorly recorded or mastered performance, irrespective of it's hi-res
pretensions is simply not going to sound very good. An analogy would be
a high-definition video of an out-of-focus image. The 1080p does it no
good, and in fact, an in-focus standard NTSC video image would be much
better than an out-of-focus HD image!
I'm convinced it's the mastering. I've got CD remasters that are better than
original release, and some DVD-A releases that I can't tell from the original
CD. I've also got some CD original releases that sound as good as anything.
Which just serves to underline my comments.
That leaves me less than interested in rushing out to buy a new player just
to support another format which is ultimately why I think SACD didn't really
take off.
Well, that's part of it, perhaps. Mostly it was that the music-buying
public saw no value in the new format. The players were more expensive,
and so were the discs. The average music buyer, including many with
decent playback equipment, heard no real difference between the SACD and
the regular CD release of a title. The idea of paying up to $10 more for
an SACD title that, in many cases, could only be played on one's new,
expensive, SACD player (and not on any other player that the buyer might
own, including his car player) just wasn't that appealing.
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