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Why make SACD hybrid CDs ?

post #1 of 8
12/1/12 at 12:24pm
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As the title says , why make SACD hybrid ? It seems to me that if you only had a redbook CD player , you would save some money and buy the redbook version of whatever CD you wanted . Likewise , if you had a SACD player , you would buy a single layer SACD of whatever CD you wanted because it seems to me that it would be cheaper to make a single layer SACD where as the savings would be reflected down to the consumer . I know this seems like a dumb question , but I really would like to know . 

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post #2 of 8
12/1/12 at 4:23pm

Some companies like Pentatone only make hybrid SACDs. I guess they don't want to have to maintain two formats in their catalog. Probably most of their customers listen to the redbook layer because they don't have a SACD player. But it really doesn't matter because both layers sound the same.

 

I believe many of the Living Stereo hybrid SACDs were never released on CD except in a complete box set. So if you wanted one particular title, you just buy the hybrid SACD. The price is the same.


Edited by bigshot - 12/1/12 at 4:24pm
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post #3 of 8
12/12/12 at 10:00am

Because they have to do it for survival.

Most of early single layer SACDs did not fare well in the market, due to the slow development of SACD player market.

 

Now even Sony stops making new SACD player, single layer SACDs make no sense if the publisher wants to increase the customer base.

Small scale publisher prefer SACDs for the copyright protection, but they are not taking the risk of lowering sales for betting solely on SACD.
 

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post #4 of 8
12/13/12 at 7:39am
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Originally Posted by RBYRER View Post

As the title says , why make SACD hybrid ? It seems to me that if you only had a redbook CD player , you would save some money and buy the redbook version of whatever CD you wanted . 

No, I would buy the SACD, so when the time arrives to upgrade to SACD Player, I dont have to buy another disc,

hoping at that time SACD format is not DEAD..

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post #5 of 8
12/13/12 at 10:07am
I have a stash of Edison Cylinder records waiting for when I get a cylinder phonograph.
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post #6 of 8
12/13/12 at 4:26pm
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Originally Posted by bigshot View Post

I have a stash of Edison Cylinder records waiting for when I get a cylinder phonograph.

Who knows it can happen, biggrin.gif

Lately I found at a thriftstore a Zenith Transoceanic,

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post #7 of 8
12/13/12 at 10:28pm
I think it was an attempt to push mainstream adoption of SACD. If they could get SACD versions into the hands of more people, more OEM's would start to build more players. I am sure they eventually planned to start releasing all studio albums as Hybrid SACD's. It really wouldn't have added that much cost to production. Just think. We would all be enjoying a much higher standard of audio quality these days if this strategy had worked. Sadly, this never happened. We're just now starting see higher resolution recordings released, over a decade later. On top of that, a lot of them don't even compare to the SACD releases...
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post #8 of 8
12/14/12 at 8:50am

anyway, don`t know why someone has to copy paste threads from one forum to the otherblink.gif

 

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/why-make-sacd-hybrids-cds.302916/

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