[redshifter]

mc wack, good point re: dvda winning over sacd. the only argument i can give against that is sacd plays in regular cd players, while dvda does not.

an audio engineer i know did line-level matched blind comparisons in a recording studio between dvda, sacd, dts, and dolby. he liked dvda best, which of course caused all kinds of recriminations and flames!! sometimes i think these folks take this audio stuff too seriously.

 

[mc whak]

Well, not all SACD's will play in regular CD players. Only the Hybrid discs. I don't know if that's how they all come or not. Just a semantic argument.

My choice is to wait it out until there is more of a selection. I'm really not a huge jazz or classical fan (played it for too many years). And that's all there is on both sides. Also, these are for the most part first gen mid-fi players. The prices will drop as more and more come out. And the technology will get better as well.

But whatever, my mind is wandering...

 

[aos]

Yeah, I've just seen Kind of Blue SACD in local Virgin Megastore... I was quite surprised actually, it was sitting among CDs, as if "one of them". Apart from high price ($34 Canadian) there's also a sticker announcing that it won't play in anything but a SACD player. Where is one to buy a SACD player here is beyond me as even Sony Store doesn't carry them...

 

[Onix]

Okay. I have two questions:

1- Does this portable has some sort of antiskip protection? If I decide to buy one of these portable DVD-A players, I want to know if I am going to be able to walk around with it. I don't care about taking it to the gym, so the antiskip wont have to be really that good.

2- Would it be able to play a hybrid SACD? Since it plays on every other normal Cd player, maybe it can be done with these.

Anybody cares to answer this questions, please? Take care kids.

 

[mc whak]

I don't remember any mention of anti-skip. And yes, it would be able to play the CD portion of the hybrid disk.