SA-CD.net - A lot of announcements, but no releases.

Post by Nightingale February 26, 2007 (11 of 13)
soundboy said: It's possible that it may be a XRCD. Or a 2 SACD (2 CD) set?

Post by trod44 March 1, 2007 (12 of 13)

hifirene said:

Since the time I switched from HDCD to SACD, there where a lot of announcements of classical pop and rock albums to be released as a SACD .
But until now just a few appeared as a SACD.
In 2003 there was a announcement that Supertramp was working on a release of there albums in SACD. http://www.hometheaterforum.com/htf/archive/index.php/t-69236.html.
Also there where announcements of King crimson, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, U2, Gino Vanelli, The Beatles, and many more ,but until now nothing.
Hopefully the Releases of the Genesis albums will chance a lot and companies will follow soon.

Here is a confirmed new SACD release:

http://www.bluecoastrecords.com/

Really amazing acoustic performances in 5.1 SACD.

Tony

Post by eesau March 1, 2007 (13 of 13)

Yes,

because SACD could not create enough buying customers in large scale, they possibly decided to cancel the mentioned releases.

But at the beginning of this century, things were different:

My local library sold issues of HiFi News (from 2000 - 2004) and I could not resist buying some of them because they (as I now realized) made me to acquire a multichannel system with an universal SACD/DVDA player. And I'm very happy with it.

While reading these old issues, I realized that they were writing about DVDA and SACD a lot. There seemed to be a great interest in both SACD and DVDA at that time.

And possibly that was the reason why they made a lot of announcements ....

DVDA is dead and that is a fact (even if they did release excellent Beatles Love and Door's Perception Box late last year). And DVDA releases were mostly POP/ROCK/PROG ... so get a univeral player and those discs while you still can.

Most SACDs of today are classical music ... and multi-channel and audibly very good. I believe SACD will survive in this nische market.

best regards,

Esa

PS. we are now in a similar situation with HD DVD/Blu Ray as DVDA/SACD were some five years ago. The lack of interest will make both these format obsolete, too.