Thread: SPEAK & SPELL-new Depeche Mode release prob. w.SACD disc

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Post by hawk July 11, 2006 (1 of 9)
Has anyone experienced problems with the SACD(disc) that comes in the
Speak & spell album of Depeche Mode? I have the other albums that came out
around the same time- Masses and Violator and in these, the first disc is
SACD and the second a DVD with DTS etc. However, in the Speak and
Spell set, the first CD reads as an ordinary CD not SACD. I was wondering
if thisa has happened to anyone else.

Thanks in advance

Post by mcchuk July 11, 2006 (2 of 9)
hawk said:

Has anyone experienced problems with the SACD(disc) that comes in the
Speak & spell album of Depeche Mode? I have the other albums that came out
around the same time- Masses and Violator and in these, the first disc is
SACD and the second a DVD with DTS etc. However, in the Speak and
Spell set, the first CD reads as an ordinary CD not SACD. I was wondering
if thisa has happened to anyone else.

Thanks in advance

I have the same Violator and Speak & Spell and have found they both work fine in my system. I have the Yamaha S-1500 Universal Player.

Sincerely,

Dan.

Post by monotone July 12, 2006 (3 of 9)
Same here. Have all three titles. No problem.

Post by hawk July 13, 2006 (4 of 9)
mcchuk said:

I have the same Violator and Speak & Spell and have found they both work fine in my system. I have the Yamaha S-1500 Universal Player.

Sincerely,

Dan.

Thank You for the response...it must be my system then.

Yours,

Hawk

Post by hawk July 13, 2006 (5 of 9)
monotone said:

Same here. Have all three titles. No problem.

Again, thanks for the response...need a better system I guess.

Post by The Seventh Taylor September 2, 2006 (6 of 9)
hawk said:

in the Speak and Spell set, the first CD reads as an ordinary CD not SACD.

Did you order them from the same source?

Be aware that the European editions of the Depeche Mode remasters series all consist of a SACD and a DVD disc but the American equivalents have a regular CD instead of the SACD, besides the DVD.

Post by ciscoboy November 21, 2006 (7 of 9)
The Seventh Taylor said:

Did you order them from the same source?

Be aware that the European editions of the Depeche Mode remasters series all consist of a SACD and a DVD disc but the American equivalents have a regular CD instead of the SACD, besides the DVD.

Not completely correct !!. I found in my local shop (here in Chile) european releases for the NTSC market. Yes ! european releases for the NTSC market !!. They were "violator" and "speak and spell". The "music for the masess" run out of stock. They are official, not piracy or counterfait.
Well, they are packed in the same way as the european PAL editions. I mean , they come out with the plastic slip cover labeled "collector editions". However in the back you only read: Made in EU, NTSC Region 2 to 6, and DTS. SACD logo and DSD symbol are lost. Catalog number for the "speak and spell" box is DMCD1NTSC. And the CD is only a red book CD.

Post by Gerald November 22, 2006 (8 of 9)
I didn't have any trouble on all three Depeche Mode SACD. I have a Sony SACD/DVD player DVP-NS900V which I bought in 2002.

Post by The Seventh Taylor November 22, 2006 (9 of 9)
Gerald said:

I didn't have any trouble on all three Depeche Mode SACD.

ciscoboy said:

I found in my local shop european releases for the NTSC market... Made in EU, NTSC Region 2 to 6, and DTS. SACD logo and DSD symbol are lost. Catalog number for the "speak and spell" box is DMCD1NTSC. And the CD is only a red book CD.

In the meantime there are six Depeche Mode SACDs in the remasters series -- eight even if you count '101' and 'Playing the Angel'.

I haven't noticed a problem with any of them. All of them are hybrid SACDs. The DVDs are all PAL. Remarkably, most of them are market Region 2-6 or Region 2-8 but precisely 'Speak & Spell' states "All Regions". Two don't specify anything. I haven't been able to verify the actual regions.

The Region 2-6 NTSC disc ciscoboy describes sounds like a release for the NTSC territories in the world outside North America. Japan for instance (NTSC, R2), but also Chile and various other Latin American NTSC countries (R4).

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