Right, but this early honest approach soon created a sideline "second valorization" which absolutely makes sense from their business view.
With a whole house audio system it is unfortunately not practical to insert the disc into the player. The player is physically much too far away from the listening position A disc player is also not made to handle multiple zones, either, so you have to be really creative with the distribution system . Whereas streamers like CCAs and Wiim can handle these things. I used to have a 5 disc SACD player hooked up to amps set to "multi channel stereo" mode to play onto all the various zones at once. I controlled the system with an RF remote. This was before streamers appeared that could be controled with smartphones. The SACD changer mechanism failed. I went through 4 changers before I gave up. I still have a working single disc SACD player (ubp-x800) in my home theater. So, yes, I want DSD streamers for the WHA system.Right, but this early honest approach soon created a sideline "second valorization" which absolutely makes sense from their business view.
Still listening too and purchasing SACDs, mainly because the gear to play them is still here, but the increased sound quality I was never able to identify. But it seems to be my nature as hunter and collector
And of course the point with misleading advertising is correct. For me this format is irrelevant and senseless for streaming. Not so much work to put the disc into the player. But that is of course my very private approach and not the scale.
Have a good time @ everyone!
Given just one version to listen to, though, I could never tell what it is. and related to this I downgraded during the last months nearly everything in hifi dramatically. Also my players are never more than 2m away and my listening position is always the same. But if I would take care of my cardiologist I should increase the distance Absolutely, and they were competing with the DVD consortium (led by Toshiba among others) for the next form of physical media, to rescue the loss of the expiring Compact Disc patent royalties.
It's also now much easier and cheaper to rip SACDs to files that play over your network (local streaming) to a DAC, far easier/cheaper than the original PS3 method was.
So much better than every cassette deck. Maybe WiiM.....in the Ultra....revitalize.........no!
Feature creep extraordinaire!
Had a sonee no baloney md and a kenwood. Never quite got accepted.Still have a little tear in my left eye when remembering the MD. Little bit ahead of time
