Multichannel SACDs - Now Over 450

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I'm definitely glad to see the upsurge in multi-channel SACDs, but I'm disappointed that many are not Hybrids.

Shouldn't we be seeing more hybrids by now?

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Well, Universal Music says they are experimenting with Hybrids and Single Layer SACDs to see which consumers like better.

Perhaps SACD fans need to send them some email at [email protected] on this question.

As for hybrid SACDs overall, the number and capacity of Hybrid SACD production lines continues to increase. So that shouldn't be an issue in the not too distant future.




 
Here is a copy of an email that I sent to Universal. If everybody writes one, maybe we can influence the state of affairs:

To whom it may concern,
As a consumer who who spends a lot of doe,ray, me on music, I would like to voice an opinion.
Multichannel music is the first exciting innovation in consumer electronics and music in a long time. It is a much more enjoyable way to listen to your favorite music. Your benefit, of course, is yet another way to make me buy the same music over and over. It also provides added value to the consumer, which will pull the product through the marketplace. It is also harder for the average consumer to duplicate.
Please, please, please don't let this exciting innovation die on the vine! Release more classic titles and superstar artist in a MULTICHANNEL format. Even if it has to be SACD(Iprefer DVD Audio.
YOU draw even more dollars out of mine, and many others piggy banks!

Yours Multichannelly,
Bob Lynch

 
Sure hope Sony releases Andreas Vollenweider in SACD soon
I would love to hear his first album " Behind The Gardens , Behind The Wall,Under The Tree.
That would sound awesome in sacd multi channel.
 
Except for new releases hybrids make no sense. If you want to listen to the CD layer you've already got it on a CD, for example, the recent Shaggy hybrid SACD. They should have used the CD layer on that for a dts mix, which it seemed they were going to do at first. The biggest problem with SACD is the players. Sony and Philips machines are unreliable. Pioneer machines convert SACD to PCM, or so I've been told. The Yamaha is impossible to find, except at full retail, and may be unreliable also since they state in their brochure that some discs may not play on it. The Onkyo for whatever reason reminds me of a pig. They need to change their name. The Krell costs too much for my current income.
 
<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>They should have used the CD layer on that for a dts mix,[/quote] Don't think you'll see a dts on an sacd disc ! If they do I'd like to see how they pull that one off!
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0] Rob
 
Well in my experience the Pioneer players are bullet proof. They play all discs with no issues. I have not had an issue with any of the 300 discs (900 if you include CD's which I don't) that I have. Also, the DSD to PCM thing has only been validated on the older players as far as I know. My 45a sounds fantastic on all formats ONCE BROKEN IN. Nothing is perfect. I feel that I am close after 35 years of striving for the perfect sounding system. I am sure that within a few years we will have a universal player that will play all hi-rez formats to almost everyones satisfaction. I am picky and for the first time in that 35 years I am happy with what I have.

 
Well, it could be done. You could place a DTS 5.1 signal on the Stereo CD layer. But that would make the disc incompatible with non-DTS CD playback systems.

So I would agree that we're unlikely to see such a disc.

>>Don't think you'll see a dts on an sacd disc ! If they do I'd like to see how they pull that one off!<<

 
There's no point to adding a dts track..

All hybrids should have CD/hires stereo/hires MC..

If I owned a studio I would release ONLY these - even if it means fewer releases..

If you already own the CD - sell it for a few bucks which lowers the cost of your new disc..
 
quote]There's no point to adding a dts track..[/quote]
This is what I meant by -like to see how they pull this one off!
They could do it, but at what cost and what for ?
0] Rob
 
Why not a DTS CD hybrid in lieu of a PCM layer?

It wouldn't be strict Red Book, but it'd have the surround mix for folks with a DTS decoder...

Mind you, it'd never happen because studios want to upsell you...
 
<blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Why not a DTS CD hybrid in lieu of a PCM layer?[/quote]

The studios will sell LOTS more discs having the redbook on it vs a DTS track..

If you fit both on sure but given a choice I'd go the Sony approach..




 
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