jimmy100;149800 Wrote: > Wow, this is an old thread. > > >DSOTM > I have the SACD and it's fantastic to listen to in multi channel, but > how many other artists/genres lend themselves to a 5.1 mix? When the > music is just instruments and vocals, the only option the sound > engineer has is to make you feel like you're in the band. > Notwithstanding the difficulty in doing this well without making it > gimicky, is this really the way the artist intended their music to be > heard? > > >proper SACD player > Well I doubt my $200 universal player would qualify but the Sony ES > models mentioned by others in the thread must surely count. > > 5.1 music will only ever have niche appeal because it requires the > listener be in the sweet spot the whole time. It's not suitable for > background listening, can't be played on portable players through > headphones, and any sound quality difference over CD is probably > inaudible to most people; particularly given the poor quality of the > equipment in the average home. The final nail in the coffin is the > closed nature of the format. > > I had high hopes for SACD when I got my first player, but like most on > this thread, the few albums I own have barely been out of the case > since I got my SB2.
I had high hopes also. Some new ones still come out and even in DVD-A. I'm not sure where it is going to go, but I really enjoy the ones I do have immensely. I'm not sorry at all that I bought a combo DVD-A/SACD player a few years ago. I got my money back after listening to the first one I bought which was Grateful Dead's American Beauty. That was worth it alone. Took a while to get everything setup right and adjust the system with a sound level meter. Mickey Hart did a complete remix from a drummers sound perspective. It is truly amazing. -- Sliztzan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sliztzan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=8173 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21542 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
