In my feeling after initially purchasing a lot of the Sony SACD's I found
that it seems that SONY took the multi-generational masters and made SACD's
from them. They did not go back to the original masters and start carefully
with SACD from scratch. Sony also did a lot of cheesy surround effects that
were poor. I quit buying any SONY SACD's. Now there are other companies,
Mobile Fidelity, Chesky, and others that are doing SACD correct and it
sounds good.

Also, if you are using you $200 Sony DVD/SACD players the quality of the
electronics in the box kill all the sonic advantages of SACD. Cheap low
cost parts and noisy power supplies. With a quality player a difference can
be heard.

So; If you have an audiophile system the difference is there if the
recording was done correctly. If you are using the average consumer
equipment then SACD differences may not be heard. You will still hear how a
good company like Mobile Fidelity, etc start with better original master
tapes and take more care in mastering as even their stereo CD's are better
than anything Sony puts out.

Kurtis

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I asked sony why the did not release their movie's soundtrack in SACD
(but released in CD only). Sony did not answer the question but said
they would "will escalate this case to our marketing department"
whatever it means.

I also asked the lack of Sony SACD players and to which I was told that
that their DAV series are all SACD enabled but strangely their web
sites specs didn't mentioned that.

However, Sony avoided answering the most important question, i.e. give
us the assurance that SACD is going to survive at today's CD's price
and why Blu-Ray is not supporting SACD at the moment.

You people draw your own conclusion. The reply I got is not convincing
enough for me.

Most likely SACD is not going to become the hot new product since there
appears to be no sonic improvements because of the format. There have
been
remastered discs that some find an improvement, but AFAIK the format
itself
is indistinguishable from plain ol' CD.