"Espen Braathen" wrote in message
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Hi Everyone,

We now have begun our show coverage of Germany's High End Society's
Munich audiophile show. The report can be seen at
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/munich2005/ and have Part 3 coming soon

Well, the consensus from the show is that SACD is a dead format for
surround. This statement was projected by Ken Ishiwata from Marantz among
others.


Espen

In classical music there are far more SACD than DVD-A recordings. The
problem with DVD-A is you never know exactly what you'll get - stereo?
surround sound? both? 96khz? 192 khz? It was utterly brain dead not to
lay down the law and come up with a standard that was actually a
standard. My own pet beef about DVD-A is that the damn things are
usually packaged in oversized cases that don't fit in my CD shelves.
Why, oh why, did they have to do *that*?

As for Sony not making SACDs any more, I have a number of SACD
recordings and none of them are from Sony. Sony rarely produces a
recording I'd want to buy. So SACD might well live on with or without
Sony. (Now if BIS and Hyperion stop making SACDs I'll start believing
in the medium's demise.)