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Much better than CD, compared to vinyl there still needs work to be done.

A waste of time in my opinion.

Guess my Red Book players are fairly state-of-the-art. When I A/B two discs—one SACD and one Red Book CD—the well-recorded Red Books sound just about as good.

I think if the recording is done well enough to take advantage of SACD's positives the outcome is fantastic. The musical presentation is more at ease with better flow and dynamic resolve. I currently own about 60 titles across many generas (sp?). But if the recording is not up to the task, well you know what they say, you can not polish a turd!.

Bought my first SACD player three years ago. The medium is very convincing, but the software

I find it equivelant to records without the hassels. I like the surround sound also.

All my new purchases are SACD

On a good recording, the differences are remarkable. Unfortunatley I think a very good system is required to discover the quality.

I have thoroughly listened to many direct-to-DSD recordings and find all of them to be vastly superior to Red Book PCM recordings. Having done many comparisons between the DSD and PCM layers of hybrid discs, I can say with absolute, and purely objective, certainty that DSD is a great improvement over 44.1/16 PCM. One of the most prominent advancements that DSD offers is an extremely low noise floor. Resultant from the high signal-to-noise ratio, which is maintained at ALL AMPLITUDES, is spectacular low level resolution. All sorts of detail that would otherwise go unnoticed become readily apparent. Furthermore, the detail is always very natural, never etched or analytical. Another extraordinary benefit that DSD brings to the table is its ability to truly preserve the "ebb and flow" of music. That is, it maintains the coherency of the temporal continuum in which the music was originally played. In essence, DSD allows the music to be reproduced as a single continuous temporal event rather than an agglomeration of many separate ones. In the end, the improvements that DSD offers over Red Book PCM are many in number and profound in nature. However, this really isn

As in any other medium, the quality of the recording is key—but, when a disc is well recorded it provides the best sound quality that I have heard.

SACD sounds great. I have a decent analog system, but find myself listening to SACD more often than LPs because the sound is almost as good and SACD is just easier.

For the most part. It is almost the quality as mobile fidekity original masters and is far superior to dvd audio

SACD sounds okay. I have also heard excellent CD players. In fact they sounded so good that I don't think SACD is a good idea anymore.

most SACD discs IMO sounds better then RBCD. 1,000$ SACD player can sound better than 5,000 RBCD player - and this is cool.

More hirez multichannel, please!

As good as vinyl, without the hassle, snap, crackle, and pop.

The future is media-less. Hard drives first, then memory chips. SACD online would be more interesting than another set of discs.

This format is something that should have been on the market years ago.

A breakthrough in digital media and here to stay.

SACD more than halves the difference between the sound of CD and fine LP reproduction.

SACD is not a night-and-day difference from Red Book CD on high-end equipment. The noticeable differences are a little more detail, better imaging, and much less fatigue after listening for extended periods. Perhaps the most noticeable difference is that SACD players often sound equivalent to a Red Book CD player that costs much more.

as soon as they allow me to use my optical cable ill start buying it.

I'm one who believes that CD, with it's faults, sounds better than LP with it's faults. SACD fixes what's wrong with CD, mostly, and includes the most positive attributes of LP.

on a top cd player a high-bred sacd/cd(cd layer playing) sounds so close to the sacd sonics, that i question all the hub-bub.

it sounds better than regular cds but I don't think it is worth the extra cost especially when you cannot duplicate the cd for to play in your car.

I bought a SACD player a while back and it sat on the shelf for about 6 months. When I finally got around to sitting down to take a good listen to it, I realized that the music actually moved emotionally. Never before was I nearly brought to tears while listening to music on my home stereo. Some peices give me goosebumps, the chill of feelings and emotions taking over. SACD has brought me one step closer to audio nirvana....

It's wonderful, provided it's well recorded. There seem to be many remastered CDs, the originals of which are only ok. Consequently, SACD is only okay to pretty good. In fact, I have well recorded CDs that sound better than some of my SACDs.

... QUITE good, so far ...!

Much more natural and open, less harsh than CD.

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