On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 08:16:14PM +0200, Jussi Laako wrote: > You can play high quality 5.1 or 2.0 audio from SACD discs.
And do nothing else with then at all. It's a completely closed format. > And those also play on standard CD players. Only because the flip side *is* a CD, and without that SACD wouldn't sell at all. You could do the same with any new format. > I personally would like to see SACD winning over DVD-A. Because of > different coding, it also simplifies D/A converters It doesn't at all. And it complicates all the rest. Any idea of how to mix, filter, or in general do whatever non-trivial operation without first going to PCM ? It's possible, but horribly complicated. > and thus improves sound quality. Again, that's a myth. -- FA
