[78-L] EMI SACDs

[DAVID BURNHAM]

EMI suddenly getting on the SACD bandwagon is very strange. The format is
indeed virtually dead except in Japan and some US audiophile issues that
are very expensive. I really wish that these companies would in fact get
behind a blu-ray reissue series, as there are many players in people's
homes at this point, and a blu-ray audiophile format has a good chance of
catching on.

Jeff Sultanof


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There are still SACDs coming from Europe and England on labels such as Chandos, CPO, Pentatone, Audita, Tudor, Channel Classics, Harmonia Mundi, LSO, etc. to name just a few.  These SACDs are generally no more expensive than regular CDs, at least at the store I deal with.  There was a time, (and it's not much different now), when the only SACD players you could find were universal players which played DVDs and Blu Rays as well.  This was a huge inconvenience for me because my sound room is not video equipped and in order to program an SACD or a CD on one of these players you had to do it on a video screen.

db