What are you listening to? What format?

SolidSqual

Hey right now I'm watching and listening to Alicia Keyes Unplugged. I highly recommend it for anyone who loves some good R&B with a little jazz. What are you listening to tonight?

On another note, is anyone listening to SACDs or DVD-As? Where do you purchase these items? I'm thinking of buying a SACD/DVDA player, but I want to make sure media is available. Any thoughts?

cfrizz

I listened to my Carpenters SACD earlier today. I love the format. I've gotten mine all over the place. I've gotten some from Amazon, others from Deep Discount & Digital Eyes online.

SolidSqual

why aren't the discs available more in stores?

bobman1235

SolidSqual wrote:

why aren't the discs available more in stores?

Because no one buys them?

SolidSqual

Hhaah ok I guess i walked into that simple answer. I was hoping for "because DVDAs have been found to be funding Islamic Extrmists and their crusade against the West." But ok I'll accept the obvious answer.

Frank Z

Because the marketing was non-existant for DVD-A and SACD.

Danny Tse

Level 42 - "Level Best" on regular CD....although this would be great on SACD.

I listen to SACD all the time. You are right about hi-rez discs, both SACD and DVD-A, not being available at the local brick-and-mortar stores. I have both Tower Records and Best Buy near where I live and both location's selection is kinda bad. I think this is why hi-rez audio fans search for titles online....which could be dangerous to your wallet. There are many titles that are released overseas that aren't released domestically. The 5 SACDs of The Moody Blues are prime examples....until recently when Universal Music started distributing them domestically. Most still-in-print titles are only a click away online. And you can still find out-of-print titles on auction sites such as ebay.

mikesd

You mean there's something newer than 8-tracks. Cool I can throw my matchbooks away!:D

Billm57

Red Hot On Impulse..very cool jazz CD compilation..Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Archie Shepp, and others

danger boy

BareNaked Ladies - Maroon - on DVD-Audio nice mix on this disc.

plus I love the BNL alot.

polkatese

I have about 30+ SACD and 15+ DVD-A. I haven't specifically looking for these format, in the past 6 months or so. Why? I don't know, mainly because it's hard to even look what is available, since BB stores has stop replenishing their inventory, and what ever they have are pretty much IT. I am mainly into Jazz and its variations. As far as regular Redbook CD, I found them more and more to have very high-quality, so the resolution gap with those formats are becoming less of an issue. Now, best case scenario would be for record companies to release every albums on the dual hybrid/SACD formats, but we know the chances of that happening to be slim to none.

For me, the key is actually to have a player that, in addition of playing SACD/DVD-A (i.e. universal players), also to have very good RBCD playback characteristics. Beyond the player ability to play these formats, even more important is ability to extract the nuances of a regular RBCD, since majority of the format available out there is still RBCD.

cfrizz

What I have discovered about the difference between RBCD & SACD is resolution. I was just playing my Goodbye Yellowbrick Road SACD. Once in my cd player & once in my Universal player.

There is a lot going on in some of the songs musically. On the cd player some of the instruments are all muddled if they come through at all! On my Universal I can hear every instrument that is being played!

So while the resolution & quality of rbcd's has gotten better, I don't think it will ever be able to give you all of what is actually recorded on the cd's. Especially if there is a lot going on musically.