Post by azure September 27, 2006 (1 of 14)
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Super Audio CD Format Tops 4,000 Titles. . .
Sony's Super Audio CD Project has announced that the SACD format has now passed the 4,000 mark when it comes to albums released.
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Comments from the Sony SACD Project:
Sony commemorated hitting and passing the 4,000 SACD title milestone with an announcement in their HD World newsletter. In it, Yushi Igarashi, General Manager, Super Audio CD Project, Home Audio Division, Sony Audio Business Group said that "It is highly appropriate that this honour goes to Chesky. As well as being the vanguard of Super Audio CD’s development as a creative distribution medium, Chesky has recently announced that in future, all of its new releases will be single inventory Super Audio CDs."
Igarashi went on to talk about Sony's continuing role in SACD noting that "As the format holder, Sony, together with Philips, continues to support Super Audio CD very strongly. We continue to introduce an ever expanding range of players in a number of categories; we have integrated DSD audio processing within the Sony VAIO PC range; SonyBMG is a very active record company with Super Audio CD and the imminent launch of PlayStation 3 sees Super Audio CD as a standard playback feature within the device."
New Super Audio CD Player from Sony
HD World reports that "senior Sony executives positioned Super Audio CD within the company’s core operations." As evidence of that position, Sony cites their recent announcement of a new SACD player, the SCD-XA1200ES as part of their ES series "pure HiFi Audio category" products.
Its a shame not all SonyBMG Classical titles are single inventory Super Audio CDs.
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=15587172
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Post by Claude September 27, 2006 (2 of 14)
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"SonyBMG is a very active record company with Super Audio CD"
Too bad their SACDs are only released in the bizarro world ;-)
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Post by Daland September 27, 2006 (3 of 14)
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azure said:
New Super Audio CD Player from Sony
HD World reports that "senior Sony executives positioned Super Audio CD within the company’s core operations." As evidence of that position, Sony cites their recent announcement of a new SACD player, the SCD-XA1200ES as part of their ES series "pure HiFi Audio category" products.
Sooner or later Sony will have produced more SACD players than SACDs.
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What I find very surprising is that SonyBMG claim to have released 699 SACD's!
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Post by soundboy September 28, 2006 (5 of 14)
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Polly Nomial said:
What I find very surprising is that SonyBMG claim to have released 699 SACD's!
I only counted 648 Sony/BMG titles listed here. Maybe they've included the 10 Japan Sony titles listed on its Japanese website for pre-order for Novemeber release.
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Post by azure September 29, 2006 (6 of 14)
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Daland said:
Sooner or later Sony will have produced more SACD players than SACDs.
LOL
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Post by azure September 29, 2006 (7 of 14)
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soundboy said:
I only counted 648 Sony/BMG titles listed here. Maybe they've included the 10 Japan Sony titles listed on its Japanese website for pre-order for Novemeber release.
Maybe they're counting re-issues... eg The first Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was a Stereo SACD and the following reissue was MC/Stereo ????
At least there are some new titles being released in November ..have you got a url? I gather Sony in Japan is not affliated with BMG so in theory they may release more SA-CDs than SonyBMG in the US.. and are they hybrids? then again most releases these days are hybrids. ....I notice they have reissued a lot of jazz titles on RBCD and they utlilised Direct SBM .. .. .
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Post by soundboy September 29, 2006 (8 of 14)
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azure said:
Maybe they're counting re-issues... eg The first Miles Davis's Kind of Blue was a Stereo SACD and the following reissue was MC/Stereo ????
At least there are some new titles being released in November ..have you got a url? I gather Sony in Japan is not affliated with BMG so in theory they may release more SA-CDs than SonyBMG in the US.. and are they hybrids? then again most releases these days are hybrids. ....I notice they have reissued a lot of jazz titles on RBCD and they utlilised Direct SBM .. .. .
You could be right about counting the reissues as a separate release.
As for the 10 Sony Japan SACDs listed for pre-order, here's the url....
http://www.sonymusicshop.jp/smdr/sms/shop/goods/category.aspx?style=T&sort=sale_dt&category=00000060
The titles with the pink tab are ones being offered for pre-order. BTW, US Sony is releasing a new Danny Elfman M/C hybrid SACD next week.
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Post by Eureka October 4, 2006 (9 of 14)
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azure said:
Super Audio CD Format Tops 4,000 Titles. . .
Sony's Super Audio CD Project has announced that the SACD format has now passed the 4,000 mark when it comes to albums released.
[. . .]
Comments from the Sony SACD Project:
Sony commemorated hitting and passing the 4,000 SACD title milestone with an announcement in their HD World newsletter. In it, Yushi Igarashi, General Manager, Super Audio CD Project, Home Audio Division, Sony Audio Business Group said that "It is highly appropriate that this honour goes to Chesky. As well as being the vanguard of Super Audio CD’s development as a creative distribution medium, Chesky has recently announced that in future, all of its new releases will be single inventory Super Audio CDs."
Igarashi went on to talk about Sony's continuing role in SACD noting that "As the format holder, Sony, together with Philips, continues to support Super Audio CD very strongly. We continue to introduce an ever expanding range of players in a number of categories; we have integrated DSD audio processing within the Sony VAIO PC range; SonyBMG is a very active record company with Super Audio CD and the imminent launch of PlayStation 3 sees Super Audio CD as a standard playback feature within the device."
New Super Audio CD Player from Sony
HD World reports that "senior Sony executives positioned Super Audio CD within the company’s core operations." As evidence of that position, Sony cites their recent announcement of a new SACD player, the SCD-XA1200ES as part of their ES series "pure HiFi Audio category" products.
Its a shame not all SonyBMG Classical titles are single inventory Super Audio CDs.
http://www.highfidelityreview.com/news/news.asp?newsnumber=15587172
Why are Audio publications saying that Sony has decided to not support the SACD format and that it is essentially dead? We finally get multi-channel players and a reasonable selection of multi-channel SACD's and now the publications are declaring the format dead. I don't get it. These multi-channel SACD's on a high end system are extraordinary and provide a sound I've been trying to find for decades. It will be a terrible loss to the audiophile world if this format isn't promoted further, because I have a feeling it will be a very long time before recording companies convert to Blu-Ray, especially if SACD fails.
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Post by soundboy October 4, 2006 (10 of 14)
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Eureka said:
Why are Audio publications saying that Sony has decided to not support the SACD format and that it is essentially dead?
It's a given that audio publications need advertising from hardware/software manufacturers. Therefore, they need to write on "the latest and the greatest" gear so that the manufacturers will invest money into advertising their wares. It's nothing new. On the other hand, these audio publications' denial of the existence of new SACD release is really an agenda to kill off a viable audio format in the mainstream press so that audio manufacturers can continue to push their latest gear.
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