It's hard to imagine how miniscule the total knowledge about SACD is on this thread and apparently this forum. It causes me great glee to talk down to the two chauvnist geniuses who's technological egoes are as bloated as the airship Hindenberg, and proably on the same flight plan!
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SACD has been a format for 4+ years now. It was stereo only for about the first 2 years. Then Sony started selling multi-channel players.
SACD players's don't use Dolby Digital or DTS processing for SACD per say. SACD discs can play as many as three ways. The SACD layer will always have a stereo program. If it's a M/C disc, like DSOTM is, it will also have a seperate M/C program too. If it's a hybrid disc, as DSOTM is, it has a CD layer. BTW, the CD layer is on the top. The SACD layer is below it.
Class, class, class, shuuuuuut up! Thank-U. So, a hybrid M/C disc, like DSOTM, will playback 3 different ways. Single-layer stereo or M/C SACD's only play in SACD players. Hybrids will also play in most CD players.
SACD can only be played out through the analog ouputs of players with the exception of the Pioneer DV-47Ai which has a digital link that only works with the Elite VSX-49's proprietary input. So far, all other players use 5.1 analog ouputs, which can be routed into the 5.1 inputs found on most head units, or you can use a stereo pair for stereo SACD.
DSOTM is one of the most intresting SACD's released yet out of the 1000+ released worldwide. It's got three-way play and sounds muy excellente any way you play it. The CD layer does sound better than previous CD releases. The stereo SACD program sounds on par with the vinyl, half-speed mastered record I have. The M/C SACD progrm is a permanent fixture in my 5-disc SACD changer. I never take it out, what's that tell you...? I even bought a second copy for my other players...
Hey chavinist boys, do I seem like a ball breaker? That's because I am! Live with it!
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but estrogen is the force and the power in the universe!
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