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SACD Vs. MFSL Vs. DVD-A

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7/20/08 at 8:18pm
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I am in the market for a new CD player. I have never heard the 3 audio formats listed in the title. My Basic question is how do they compare to each other in general quality? and can you really hear a difference from a standard CD?

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7/21/08 at 2:15am
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Re: SACD Vs. MFSL Vs. DVD-A

MFSL stands for Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs and the company has released CD and SACD titles. SACD and DVD-A are high resolution, lossless formats that can be in surround, often 5.1 surround. SACD usually includes a CD layer, and those are called hybrid SACD. I own about 200 SACD titles and about 150 DVD-A titles. I own only a few MFSL releases, CD and SACD. SACD and DVD-A are both tiny niche formats now, with SACD being used primarily for classical music with some jazz and a rare rock/pop release now. The SACD v DVD-A format war basically resulted in neither amounting to anything much in terms of market, although SACD certainly found a much bigger market. There have been over 5,000 SACD titles released and I believe something considerably less than 2,000 DVD-A releases. Finding one player for CD/DVD-V/SACD/DVD-A is still pretty easy. Oppo makes some good budget players and Denon has made quite a number, including some very expensive players.

Wikipedia would be a good place to read about all three of these and if you want more information or have questions, come back.

Chris
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7/23/08 at 9:08am
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Re: SACD Vs. MFSL Vs. DVD-A

It really boils down to the title. Some MFSL and DCC gold discs sound great. Most DVDA and SACDs sound great in my experience. If you like jazz or classical SACD is worth having, especially in advance of the 25 Blue Note titles coming in the Fall.

Viewing: Sony KDSXBR150, Samsung 1400, DirectTV
Listening: Sony SCD777ES, Oppo980H, VPI Scoutmaster, Audio Research Electronics, Magnepan 1.6s

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