New Universal SACD/DVD-A Car Player from....
F1nut
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....Bose of all people. Go figure!
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=12067169
In addition, Sony has 3 new SACD players for cars coming out in the next few months.
This is exciting stuff for hi-rez fans and may just wake up the major record labels to the fact that SACD is far from dead and hopefully they'll start releasing more than just classical SACD's again.
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=12067169
In addition, Sony has 3 new SACD players for cars coming out in the next few months.
This is exciting stuff for hi-rez fans and may just wake up the major record labels to the fact that SACD is far from dead and hopefully they'll start releasing more than just classical SACD's again.
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Holy cow! :eek: I can't believe this, SACD car deck after all, this is too cool!
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Unfortuneatly having the Bose name might just give the hi-rez formats a lot more exposure. It's incredibely ironic that Bose, which has the worst fidelity next to a Victrola is pushing the hi-rez formats.
What is happening when Bose is the choice for a hi-rez format?
H9"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul! -
Interestingly, my cousin rebuilds wrecked auto's as a part-time business. He was all excited because he salvaged a set of Bose speakers out of a Chevy truck and thought I could upgrade to them in my 2004 Chevy truck. We pulled one of my door speakers to see what was different, and they were the same exact speaker, the only difference was the grill had the "Bose" name on it :eek:DKG999
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This is exciting stuff for hi-rez fans and may just wake up the major record labels to the fact that SACD is far from dead and hopefully they'll start releasing more than just classical SACD's again.
Based on the total of 4,502 SACD titles listed at sa-cd.net, here's the breakdown (highlighting the top 5 catagories)....
Blues -- 63 titles = 1.3% of titles listed at sa-cd.net
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That's one fugly deck!
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My car deck has multichannel DVD-A so thats nothing new but no SACD.
It seems now bose will have to be considered a friend to the high end community. They will use their bogus name to create acceptance of high resolution formats to the masses causing only good things to happen for us.
madmaxVinyl, the final frontier...
Avantgarde horns, 300b tubes, thats the kinda crap I want...
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Cool stats, Danny. Off the top of my head I would have thought classical was up near 80%, still highly disproportionate at 52.5%.Political Correctness'.........defined
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The highest resolution sound of my car is the road noise, sacd, dvd-A, or whatever won't matter
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The highest resolution sound of my car is the road noise, sacd, dvd-A, or whatever won't matter
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It's hard to tell who's in charge at Sony anymore. They make a new Blu-Ray player that doesn't play SACD let alone CD, then make a game console that plays SACD, and now plan to make SACD decks for automotive use after holding off on making them for years while their music division virtually stops making SACD's.
My guess is that DVD/SACD transports have reached the price point for Sony that including one instead of a CD-only transport in automotive gear makes more sense financially. All but the cheapest CD-only transports have left the market in the last couple of years.
The Bose universal head unit is probably OEM from Panasonic or Clarion since they seem to work on some things together. Sony will never make a true universal music player, although they now seem to be headed in the direction they should have gone five years ago. -
I find it mildly entertaining that Japanese Pop is one of the top five SACD categories produced....Am I the only one?
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Sony stated that the only reason SACD decks for cars haven't been available until now is that the chip set needed for DSD wasn't up to the task. They now have one that will survive the harsh conditions in an automoblie.Political Correctness'.........defined
"A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."
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The Bose universal head unit is probably OEM from Panasonic or Clarion since they seem to work on some things together. Sony will never make a true universal music player, although they now seem to be headed in the direction they should have gone five years ago.
Panasonic, like Sony, is a firm believer in the format it supports, DVD-A. On the other hand, Philips, a co-inventer of SACD, does manufacturer DVD-A compatible drives but the company doesn't market them.Bill Ayotte wrote:I find it mildly entertaining that Japanese Pop is one of the top five SACD categories produced....Am I the only one?
This is not surprising given that Japan is the second biggest music market in the world. The more surprising thing is the amount of Chinese pop music on SACD, almost all of it from Hong Kong, a city of 7.5 million people. Note that Chinese pop SACD titles, or any other SACD titles from that city, were no longer added to sa-cd.net beginning in September 2005. Here are 34 SACD titles, some from independent labels and some from major labels such as Universal Music, that I owned and aren't listed at sa-cd.net. -
Political Correctness'.........defined
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Nope....but it was just released by Groove Note. Sounds like Norah Jones + Linda Ronstadt? Hmmmm..... -
Sounds like Norah Jones + Linda Ronstadt? Hmmmm.....
Exactly.....quess I'll be the guinea pig.Political Correctness'.........defined
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