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  • The flop of SACD

    From Adrian Caspersz@email@here.invalid to uk.rec.audio on Sat Apr 29 17:03:23 2023
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    I've just dug up some 16 year old hifi SACD compatible car-boot 'junk'
    in an effort to enjoy the old multichannel SACD disc I have, that
    purchased from in all places Poundland* - it's Pink Floyd's DSOTM, the
    30th edition.

    So I'm the owner of a Denon DVD player with a built-in SACD decoder (shockingly cheaply built), and a power guzzling receiver (built like
    the proverbial brick out-house) also by Denon.

    It all works after some mild capacitor** surgery, so today I had a
    little look on Amazon and eBay for other discs.

    Hmmm, it's stupid second-hand money on eBay except for one particular
    SACD disc.

    Sting - Sacred Love.

    Strange - was this a last ditch attempt by Sony that failed resulting in serious overstock?


    * Poundland also has supplied me with a few HDCDs in the past.
    Re-marketed returns?

    ** A lot of equipment I have had, that feature always on power supplies
    (soft power buttons), routinely wear out their secondary soothing caps
    and crash their microprocessors. Great design...
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    Adrian C
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  • From Brian Gaff@brian1gaff@gmail.com to uk.rec.audio on Sun Apr 30 10:42:30 2023
    From Newsgroup: uk.rec.audio

    Well, I think everyone tried to jump on a bandwagon that was about to fall
    off a cliff, no point in making it too well.
    I notice that now we have discs with Dolby Atmos, even the Beatles have been remixed into it, so are these DVDs or Blue Rays? Often you get as in
    the John Lennon stuff, a Quadraphonic mix of Imagine as well as a lot of
    other stuff.
    I guess it could be interesting to try these on a good Atmos set up, but my room is a bit too small for such things.
    Brian
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    "Adrian Caspersz" <email@here.invalid> wrote in message news:kb4tebFfim5U1@mid.individual.net...
    I've just dug up some 16 year old hifi SACD compatible car-boot 'junk' in
    an effort to enjoy the old multichannel SACD disc I have, that purchased from in all places Poundland* - it's Pink Floyd's DSOTM, the 30th edition.

    So I'm the owner of a Denon DVD player with a built-in SACD decoder (shockingly cheaply built), and a power guzzling receiver (built like the proverbial brick out-house) also by Denon.

    It all works after some mild capacitor** surgery, so today I had a little look on Amazon and eBay for other discs.

    Hmmm, it's stupid second-hand money on eBay except for one particular SACD disc.

    Sting - Sacred Love.

    Strange - was this a last ditch attempt by Sony that failed resulting in serious overstock?


    * Poundland also has supplied me with a few HDCDs in the past. Re-marketed returns?

    ** A lot of equipment I have had, that feature always on power supplies (soft power buttons), routinely wear out their secondary soothing caps and crash their microprocessors. Great design...

    --
    Adrian C


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