SACD/CD

Posted by: Reto D on 27 May 2002

Hi,

I've just read an article in stereophile, that
one or two major labels (universal, sony) are planning to switch from the cd format only to a hybrid format cd/sacd very soon.

Seems to me that they want to bury cd format within foreseeable future. Or do they really want
to give us more options? In that case we just
have to wait for the Naim sacd (without loosing
the oportunity to listen to our cd collection).

Nice thought, isn't it?

What do you know/think about it?

Reto

CDX, NAC102, NAPSC, Hi-Cap, NAP 250, ProAc Response 2.
Posted on: 27 May 2002 by Reto D
Julian,

What is blue laser tech, never heard about that...

Thanks.


Reto

CDX, NAC102, NAPSC, Hi-Cap, NAP 250, ProAc Response 2.5
Posted on: 28 May 2002 by Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
sorry if this has been covered before elsewhere, but does anyone know of any good web sites with SACD/DVDA titles? Just wondering what is available
thanks
Paul.
Posted on: 28 May 2002 by gusi
There are 200 odd sacd's on amazon.com.

These are the double layered disks with a plain old cd layer and a sacd layer behind it.

They should play on both cd and sacd players.

As I don't have an sacd player I haven't heard one yet.

Next years generation of dvd players should have sacd and dvd-a decoders build-in.

One of the BE mags had an article on blue tooth a few months ago. From memory; blue tooth laser is a new "dvd/cd" technology that fits multi-layers of high-density data on a cd. The proposed upper limit was somewhere near 12 layers for a total of 120 odd GB. The technology is still 5 years from production and so far only backed by a small company.

Gus
Posted on: 28 May 2002 by Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus
thanks Gus - I'll have a butchers. Guess Naim will be bringing their multiformat-player out sometime next year...8-10K followed six months later by a budget version.
Paul.
Posted on: 02 June 2002 by gusi
Looks like there will be a lot more sacds by the end of the year.

see on philips latest efforts:
http://www.newscenter.philips.com/InformationCenter/NewsCenter/FPressRelease.asp?lArticleId=2217&lNodeId=13

It'd be interesting to hear a naim sacd player. CDY anyone? wink
Posted on: 03 June 2002 by jpk73
blue tooth is a wireless norm for communikation between computer and telecommunication devices...

Due to it's shorter wavelength blue laser can read smaller structure on disks; that makes possible to put more data on the disk.

- Jun
Posted on: 03 June 2002 by gusi
Yep, you're right Jun. Blue tooth is the wireless comms technology and blu-ray is the optical storage technology.

After a quick check; blu-ray can store up to 27G per disk and FMD 100G+.

Gus
Posted on: 03 June 2002 by Martin Payne
quote:
Originally posted by Reto from Switzerland:
Hi,

I've just read an article in stereophile, that
one or two major labels (universal, sony) are planning to switch from the cd format only to a hybrid format cd/sacd very soon.



Reto,

frankly, I'm worried.

There are easily discernible differences between the sound from US & UK pressings of the same CD.

Either the Naim CD players are revealing those differences, or they are very sensitive to "supposedly" irrelevant details of the pressing process.

Either way, I'd lay good money that a hybrid disc would sound worse than the same CD on my player.

mad

cheers, Martin