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Hey all -
I am relatively new to SACDs and totally new to the forum. I was just wondering if there was a website that offered clips or demos of SACDs, obviously they would just play in stereo on my PC speakers but that's all I'm looking for. I'm not familiar with a lot of the music that's released on SACD, especially the classical and world music, and would like to be able to hear some of it before making in investment. Thanks.
- Scott
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Post by raffells February 16, 2009 (2 of 7)
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Scottye83 said:
Hey all -
I am relatively new to SACDs and totally new to the forum. I was just wondering if there was a website that offered clips or demos of SACDs, obviously they would just play in stereo on my PC speakers but that's all I'm looking for. I'm not familiar with a lot of the music that's released on SACD, especially the classical and world music, and would like to be able to hear some of it before making in investment. Thanks.
- Scott
Suggestion,Look up the titles that interest you,go to JPC via the link and you can hear samples on almost anything they sell.
Dave
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Post by braver February 16, 2009 (3 of 7)
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Same with Amazon -- you can play almost any track from the CD layer.
Then again, it tells you nothing. Get a 5.1 system and sit in the sweetspot, then play a good SACD loudly, then report back. :)
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braver said:
Then again, it tells you nothing.
Agreed. You don't get to hear the benefits of multichannel, you don't get to hear the benefits of DSD (it's not provided as download and even if it were it's questionable whether the PC would be able to play it back in proper quality) and there's a high chance the sample provided doesn't even do justice to the Red Book PCM quality. It just gives you an impression about the music itself, but would the music be a key reason for switching to SACD?
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The Seventh Taylor said:
Agreed. You don't get to hear the benefits of multichannel, you don't get to hear the benefits of DSD (it's not provided as download and even if it were it's questionable whether the PC would be able to play it back in proper quality) and there's a high chance the sample provided doesn't even do justice to the Red Book PCM quality. It just gives you an impression about the music itself, but would the music be a key reason for switching to SACD?
My dillema is that I've never heard most of the music that is available on SACD in any format. Most of my life I've listened to a pretty narrow range of music and I'm interested in expanding my horizons. I'm more concerned with whether I like the music itself than the mix as none of the SACD's I would be looking at buying would be CD's that I already own. Even if the mix isn't phenomenal it's probably worth the extra couple dollars to get the SACD over the standard release. Hope that makes sense! I've been pretty disappointed with the amount of samples amazon has for their SACD releases, seems like about 1 in 10. I will try the other link suggested.
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raffells said:
Suggestion,Look up the titles that interest you,go to JPC via the link and you can hear samples on almost anything they sell.
Dave
What is JPC? Where would I find the link?
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Post by zeus February 19, 2009 (7 of 7)
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Scottye83 said:
What is JPC? Where would I find the link?
Just follow the link from the page here with the title you're interested in to jpc and it will take you directly to their listing for that title with more details, sound samples etc. The same goes for Amazon etc.
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