"gofab.com" wrote in message
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On 9 Jul 2005 16:41:05 GMT, in article ,
Chung
stated:



The one thing holding me back in buying more DVD-A/SACD's


You mean other than the incredibly narrow selection of available music
recorded
in those formats? )

Depends on what music you are interested. The SACD classical market is
alive and kicking. The SACD jazz reissue market is extensive, and gaining
(slowly) some newly recorded jazz. Pop is still a hit or miss affair
(mostly miss) but John Hiatt's recent hit "Master of Disaster" is a
single-release hybrid SACD that last week was at #7 on the album charts and
climbing...and his producer Jim Davidson has become a one-man PR proponent
for DSD and SACD (John Hiatt himself is the one who dragged Jim into DSD,
since he - John - has a SACD system at home). BTW, that disk has the
greatest set of songs "with hooks" that I've heard in one place in 20 years.
If you like melody, somewhat surreal lyrics, and good rock and roll, I can
highly recommend it.

3700 releases isn't the world, compared to the CD catalog, but for somebody
like myself mostly interested in classical, jazz, and singer-songwriters,
it is a catalog already well beyond the scope of my pocketbook.