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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: To buy an SACD Player?

Post Subject: How to redeem the intentionally degraded CD layer.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/3/2012

I do not have any special animosity against DSD beside that fact that it is a fundamentally compromised format to be “final” format. My presumption that I might comply one day with a need to buy a SACD player comes from the fact that the industry intentionally degrades the quality of CD layers in SACD disk and this lives no options. As in anything else the problem is not in technology for the moist part but in the idiots human who run the technologies. The same problem with high-res PCM downloads.

I do not know. I would by an SACD player, I do not need any “universal” player as I do have my ways to play other formats and I do not think that any universal machine will be able to match it. I do not want any external DAC, I just thinking about ½ size little player juts to spin SACD only and output analog signal. The SACD is over 13 year in the field and I hope that good SACD mini-units do exist out there. I do not look to get a full-brume SACD, whatever they feel it might mean. All that I am looking to play the DSD layer of the SACD disks as the idiots mostly vandalize the CD layers of the SACD disks. I clearly understand that the DSD layer of the SACD disks is the same PCM stream that was multiple times converted from DSD to PCM but I am sure that it will be better of the intentionally degraded CD layer.

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