[78-L] SACD (was: Mutter's Kreutzer)

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>

> A couple of years ago I picked up a few SACDs on sale at either Borders (the 
> late) or Barnes & NoBull (just try and find ONE interesting CD there these 
> days)..Mercury and BMG. The Buffalo station still raves over them whenever they 
> play them.   dl


And then they pass them thru limiters, compressors, and other signal
processing gizmos on it way to their dynamic range-and-frequency
response-limited transmitter.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


On 10/3/2011 3:41 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> SACD was marketed just as poorly as Beta was. I love my SACDs; the sound is
> incredible. They weren't priced low enough and are now difficult to find.
>
> I just hope that someone has the foresight to realize the incredible sound
> that is capable on Blu-ray discs and tries some audiophile releases in the
> medium. I'd love to see a reissue of some of the really good quadraphonic
> releases, just as one example.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:00 PM, DAVID BURNHAM<burnhamd at rogers.com> wrote:
>
>> I have just listened to A. S. Mutter's recording of Beethoven's Kreutzer
>> Sonata and the performance and sound just blew me away! Granted this is an
>> SACD, which is without question the Culmination of recording technology - it
>> can't get any better - but unfortunately, this format was deep-sixed by
>> Polygram and Sony and the music loving public is all the poorer because of
>> that. The format had a frequency response pretty well from DC to over 100
>> khz; the dynamic range covered the sound of an empty recording studio to
>> the volume of a jet plane, and it doesn't take educated ears to appreciate
>> the magic.
>>
>> db