SACD's Survival

[mkt]

7 releases with NEW MATERIAL. I may be missing some stereo releases but as far as I searched this is all that came up.

I'll bite. New material = what? Does this count as new? Released 2022.
https://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=15473

 

[kap'n krunch]

SACD..the format I LOOVE...to hate!!!!!

 

[4-earredwonder]

SACD..the format I LOOVE...to hate!!!!!

Oh, KAP .....STOP BEING SO DRAMATIC!

 

[erebus]

Speaking for myself, I love SACD and have been buying the format for over 20 years. This month gives us Pink Floyd's Animals and the new Dutton Vocalion releases by Kristofferson, Azteca and The Friends of Distinction. I'm in for the long haul.

 

[kap'n krunch]

Oh, KAP .....STOP BEING SO DRAMATIC!

GAAAAWWWDDDD , I WOULD NE VERRRRRRRR!!!!

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

I'll bite. New material = what? Does this count as new? Released 2022.
https://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=15473

That counts as new and I missed it!

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

SACD..the format I LOOVE...to hate!!!!!

SACD I LOOOOVE
DSD I HAAAAATE

 

[fredblue]

SACD..the format I LOOVE...to hate!!!!!

honestly idk what all the witterings been about, if its the copy protection BS, some of us were capturing 5.1 from them (albeit laserdrops in real-time ) to make backups 15 years ago.. and if its the ultrasonic guff that's an issue, that should all be filtered out and nobody but Mrs. Slocombe's Pussy could hear it anyway!

 

[Guy Robinson]

At this point BD is all that is required.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

I started a survey and asked some of my friends to get some young people to fill it out.

Unbelievably, DVD/DVD-Audio is winning over CD, SACD, and Blu-ray for playback capability and user interest, and by A LOT!

HUH?????

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

The RIAA data supports this, it's not a fluke!

(Yellow is SACD, Brown is DVD-Audio)

 

[ar surround]

Jack, perhaps you should rename the thread SACDs' SURVIVAL.

Jack? I thought he called himself PM. @Mr. Afternoon , are we now to call you "Jack?"

 

[MidiMagic]

Too many incompatible formats!!! That's half of what killed quadraphonics.

(The other half of the cause is that marketing people misread the market and thought quadraphonics would be a big seller after many musicians bought 4-channel reel recorders to use as 4-track multitracks in home studios.)

What I want are CDs or LPs encoded in QS or DS.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I would assume that there would be a good percentage of new releases with NEW content but as I was discussing on Steve Hoffman forums earlier today and doing a bit of research I went ahead and counted the number of SACD releases with new material from 2022 and 2021.

7.

7 total.

• Feel Like Making LIVE! - Bob James Trio
• Home - Jan Gunnar Hoff
• Beatitudes for a Wounded World - THVAYHUN
• Higher - Patricia Barber
• Heavenly Voices - Fiona Joy Hawkins & Rebecca Daniel
• Clique - Patricia Barber
• The Golden Bonana - Mr. Afternoon

All multichannel, but 7 albums with new material on SACD on the past 2 years is abysmal, considering there has been more than 500 SACD releases last year and this year.

Record companies, if you're wondering why the youth isn't buying audiophile formats, try releasing NEW MUSIC on them!

Really? I do not know how you found this but I believe you are ignoring classical content.

 

[MCDave]

7? There have been hundreds of releases on SACD in each of the past couple of years. It's just the vast majority of them are classical.

Indeed, and nothing thrills me more. SACD is by far my favorite format, as 90% of what I listen to is classical, jazz and blues. SACD continues to thrive, it's just that some don't see it because they don't pay attention to those genres.

 

[Mr. Afternoon]

Really? I do not know how you found this but I believe you are ignoring classical content.

I did mainly rely on @haikubass and his 202X Surround Releases thread. I missed quite a bit it seems.

 

[barfle]

PS Audio has a physical release division that sells new material on SACD, although none of what I’ve seen has been multi-channel.

 

[--Moe--]

Thank Goodness for SACDs !

About 3 weeks ago our TV konked out (still waiting for the Warranty replacement), leaving me with no way to navigate through the menus of my DVD-Audio & Blu-Ray Audio discs.

 

[par4ken]

The RIAA data supports this, it's not a fluke!

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(Yellow is SACD, Brown is DVD-Audio)

New DVD-Audio? I haven't seen any! Some DVD Video discs are incorrectly being referred to as DVD-Audio. I suspect that the new sales are actually (Audio) DVD-Video discs!!!

 

[par4ken]

Too many incompatible formats!!! That's half of what killed quadraphonics.

(The other half of the cause is that marketing people misread the market and thought quadraphonics would be a big seller after many musicians bought 4-channel reel recorders to use as 4-track multitracks in home studios.)

What I want are CDs or LPs encoded in QS or DS.

Multiple formats did not kill Quad!!! Only an industry that gave up on Quad much, much too quickly! We did not however need DS when QS and SQ were available!

As for multiple disc formats that too is an non issue. Get yourself a universal player. they are not at all expensive on the used market. Playback is seamless, why settle for matrix when discrete is readily and cheaply available!