SACD - Are you surprised at the format's recent resurgence?

Acoustic Sounds originally had a November release date for Can’t Buy a Thrill, but now it says Arrival Date To Be Announced. Don’t know if what that might indicate as far as a release date. Hope they haven’t run into issues with that series.

And MoFi has said to expect Van Halen releases starting in 2023. But I don’t think any of us would complain if they started sooner.

 

There are two releases upcoming that have my interest. The couch first album by Crosby Stills and Nash which just landed from Mofi. And Can't Buy A Thrill. Any vendors sells both Acoustic Sounds and Mofi? I want to combine the order to save on shipping.

 

CBAT has been changed to “arrival date to be announced” on acoustic sounds website, so who knows when it will be released.

 

Do you guys think the SACD format will get hyped up one day as vinyl nowadays? I can pick up second hand classical SACDs relatively cheap, of late.

 

available for download on HDTracks!

 

Perhaps it will depend on whether anyone will still make CD or SACD players.

 

Is it the same mastering as the AP SACD?

 

yes. Listed as Bernie Grundman’s mastering.

 

It might be on its way. There are new threads every few days on the audio forum that go like “I have new interest in SACD, how do I use my OPPO with a DAC?”

 

Preferably Multi Channel capable sacd players

 

Some Sony 4k Blu-ray players support SACD.

 

Yes, I got one the other day (for its multi-region DVD/BluRay capability). However, I'm not sure how long SACD players will continue to be manufactured. Streaming will presumably replace physical media in the not-too-distant future.

 

Did I miss something? Which titles from which label? Excited if true!

 

It's for the cover and the signed picture

Tim

 

I think it will remain a niche, and there are enough people using sacds to keeping keep it going. Japan makes sacd players.

 

I can remember hearing the same thing about vinyl in the 1990s. "Obsolete format: will disappear very soon". My experience is that taking any trend & then extrapolating it indefinitely into the future rarely leads to how things turn out in reality.

 

That's why I'm hanging on to my VHS and Betamax tapes.

 

Except this is different. There's nothing an SACD can do that a digital DSD file can't

 

Every time someone tries (& usually fails) to predict the future by extrapolating existing trends the same comment is heard "Except this is different".

 

It can sit on your shelf.
It has liner notes with pages you can turn.
It can be resold.
Should I go on?

 

Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir Hybrid Stereo SACD

 

It can also bestow upon the owner private property rights that are not applicable to the digital file.

 

I keep waiting to see a newly released SACD of Boston. If I hold my breath will I die first?

 

It's more than a feeling.

 

The Boston catalogue deserves a nice sacd release indeed. But so many other bands' materials, too. The self-titled Boston sacd from the early days is not up to par, alas.