SACD vs Blu-ray

Tornado Red
Tornado Red Posts: 939
edited September 2013 in Music & Movies
I've been wondering lately how big a difference there is between blu-ray and SACD sonically. For example, I have Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here immersion editions which feature blu-rays of the multchannel and quad mixes. I've never heard the SACD of either recording, has anyone here been able to do a comparison between these discs or any others that might have both blu and SACD versions? Just wondering if I'm missing anything not having the SACDs of the ones I mentioned. It'd be nice to hear opinions pro and con...
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  • cincycat13
    cincycat13 Posts: 882
    edited September 2013
    I have often wondered the same. The immersion WYWH and DSOTM Blu-ray 2 channel are some of my most used music choices. I even put the Eagles Farewell I tour Blu-ray in just for the music. Not to mention a bunch of other DVD and Blu-ray shows. I just hope someone has both in order to evaluate.
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  • Nightfall
    Nightfall Posts: 10,086
    edited September 2013
    Somebody will chime in.

    I'd suspect SACD vs Bluray would have more to do with the DAC being used then the medium.
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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited September 2013
    Nightfall wrote: »
    I'd suspect SACD vs Bluray would have more to do with the DAC being used then the medium.

    I'd suspect you are right. With all things being equal (recording, mastering, etc.) I suspect it will be very, very difficult to tell the difference between a 24/192 PCM file versus a DSD file.
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