Lewis Besze

Guess what, the majority of music buyers don't care about that.

Lee Scoggins

Lewis,

They do if they are influenced by their friends when a new technology decision is at hand. Many "influencers" or "early adopters" are audiophiles. Their support for Super Audio, combined with superstar titles, could create an impact to hirez on more and more people.

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

Jesper

And now Mr. Lee....

Were is Dorn saying they might not keep DVD Audio alive forever?

Jesper Nielsen

KeithH

I think we all need to get back to listening to the music and forget this B.S.

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Al B. C

Some sage advice.

Lee Scoggins

I agree.

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

LanceJ

I don't know who said this (my "ignore" feature is activated) but here's my counterpoint to this statement:

"Preferred format"?? I'm very sure it is:

1) Because sacd titles overwhelmingly consist of classical and jazz music. But in journals that cover pop/rock recording, sacd is hardly ever mentioned.

2) Since--to me--sacd has a rather dullish high end (resembling an LP that was played too much), most golden ears are attracted to it. Most golden ears seem to loooove anything exhibiting "smoothness" (i.e. dullness to me) and everytime I go and listen to what they consider smooth I find that it lacks detail, presence and sparkle--the audio equivalent of that filter moviemakers used to place over the camera lens to give female stars that blurry/soft look. Pretty......but not realistic IMO.

For ME dvd-audio's PCM format (in its 96kHz and 192kHz forms) lacks harshness but still has detail and sparkle. And even poor old 44.1kHz shares most of these qualities, so I can listen to CDs for hours with no problem.

LJ

Lee Scoggins

I think this statement speaks for itself.

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway

Michael St. Clair

Since PCM/Rebook fatigue has never been proven in an objective double-blind test, how do we know it isn't psycho-somatic?? Maybe the people that don't experience the fatigue don't have worse hearing, maybe they are focusing on the music instead of the format.

Many people believe that well-mastered CDs can sound damned good, even by audiophile standards. Some of these people can be found at the Hoffman forum. Some of them can be found on Usenet. And some of them will never admit this in public because they don't want their "audiophile card" revoked.

Lee Scoggins

I believe this too, but I still have a hard time listening for extended periods to redbook. Even when well mastered, the highs are still brittle, for instance.

no fears alone at night she's sailing through the crowd
in her ears the phones are tight and the music's playing loud
~skateaway