*pant* *dribble*

[Zak33]

look at THIS

http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=m...D&title=105809

so now I just need to convince myself that I need a SACD player.....when I have sold my house, and am putin my stuff into storage

sod it.....

[Zak33]

that is PANT WETTINGLY EXCITING

[Lee H]

What about DVD audio. Is this better than SACD or what ?

[Zak33]

waaay too complex for me to advise on that

[Lee H]

heh ... good old google found me this ...

http://www.superaudio-cd.com/technol...whitepaper.pdf

[Howard]

Dvda > Sacd.

[Aaron]

You can pick up a Pioneer DVD play that can play both formats for about £150, so it doesn't really matter about which one is better.

[Howard]

Ah yes the DV-575 or whatever it is. I've been tempted for a while. Lol

[Alex]

Yeah, although, to be honest, with the kind of level of setup you get with the 575 I'm not sure theres that noticable a difference between CD and SACD anyway, and DVD-A is just great for multi-speaker sorround sound music. As a DVD player its primary focus is DVD playback, so much as it's OK for music, it's not as fantastic as it could be. I think the amp/speaker combination is far more important than the source, personally at least. SACDs will play as normal resolution CDs in a normal CD player, and DVD-As will play in a normal DVD player anyway, iirc.

[Zathras]

Dvda > Sacd.

and you've got the tens of grand's worth of equipment necessary to even stand a chance at hearing the difference?

[myth]

Are you guys talking about DVD audio? Like that 24bit 96Hrz stuff? Like that stupid dvd that came with my ZS sound card?

[Howard]

Are you guys talking about DVD audio? Like that 24bit 96Hrz stuff? Like that stupid dvd that came with my ZS sound card?

Yes.

and you've got the tens of grand's worth of equipment necessary to even stand a chance at hearing the difference?

Yes.*







* - May not actually be true

[Zak33]

Yes.*







* - May not actually be true

lmao...

[unrealrocks]

Well actually you can hear the difference on a quite low grade system as DVDA has a much greater dynamic range - which can be heard on an Alba portable hifi The DTS DVDA disks are even better I recon

The sample DVDA you get with Audigy2 cards isn't mastered very well - there are much better examples of DVDA out there.

[myth]

Well actually you can hear the difference on a quite low grade system as DVDA has a much greater dynamic range - which can be heard on an Alba portable hifi The DTS DVDA disks are even better I recon

The sample DVDA you get with Audigy2 cards isn't mastered very well - there are much better examples of DVDA out there.

I found it to be quite good, but I'd never buy one....

[Zathras]

Well actually you can hear the difference on a quite low grade system as DVDA has a much greater dynamic range - which can be heard on an Alba portable hifi

This I sincerely doubt, having double-blind tested SACD, DVDA and normal CD on several grand's worth of reference kit it is extremely difficult if not impossible to tell any difference with the same master material. Most portable hifis won't even do 100hz to 10,000hz, let alone get near to the dynamic range possible with either DVDA or SACD.

The DTS DVDA disks are even better I recon

DTS is a compressed format, ie lossy. Unless resampled to sound better on crappy equipment (as some manufacturers do) there is no way it can sound better than virgin DVDA or SACD. It's like comparing a raw CCD or BMP digital photo with a JPEG-compressed one.