Thread: How many SACD's does the average SA-CD.net user's have????

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Post by Tourboots December 9, 2012 (191 of 315)
I have just over 300 SACD titles, all of which are multichannel except for 3. What a great format! am so pleased that some labels have continued to support it, its from these labels that I use my budget to buy my discs. Can't remember the last time I bought a UMG, Sony disc. What did go wrong with Sony and SACD? They seemed to have no real business strategy for SACD.

Post by Luke December 10, 2012 (192 of 315)
Chris said:
I would buy more SACDs, A: If they were a lot cheaper

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, for instance, in the early 70ties the cost for an ordinary LP sold for appr. 8$. Taken inflation into account, I would say that nowadays SACD are mostly a bargain.

236 mostly classical, 3 more every month.

Post by Kutyatest December 10, 2012 (193 of 315)
Luke said:

Correct me if I'm wrong, but, for instance, in the early 70ties the cost for an ordinary LP sold for appr. 8$. Taken inflation into account, I would say that nowadays SACD are mostly a bargain.

236 mostly classical, 3 more every month.

I remember paying £5 - £6 for LPs in the mid 70s to mid 80s, which even without UK inflation, makes SACDs and recorded optical media mostly a bargain.

Post by hiredfox December 10, 2012 (194 of 315)
Kutyatest said:

I remember paying £5 - £6 for LPs in the mid 70s to mid 80s, which even without UK inflation, makes SACDs and recorded optical media mostly a bargain.

Are you sure? Several of my mid 70's LP's have "29/6 pence" stickers on them. To the rest of the world that means 29 shillings & six pence = 1/2 of one shilling... which translates to £1.49 in new money

20 shillings = £
12 pence = 1 shilling

Post by pgmdir December 10, 2012 (195 of 315)
As I've written before--- I goe by 1960ish US prices. A Gallon of Gas was 30 cents. An RCA Living Stereo was usually about 20 times that at 6 bucks (5.98)

Gas has dropped nearly a dollar in the last couple of months, and is closer to 3.30 a gallon. That would make a physical disc 66 dollars. I would say that SACD's are a bargain--- Especially since they contain the equivalent of a Stereo Download, a Stereo DSD Download, and a MC DSD Download--- all on one handy-dandy disc that won't be a boat anchor in 5 years like the average computer. And you get a pretty booklet.

Post by SteelyTom December 10, 2012 (196 of 315)
hiredfox said:

The downside is what do you do with a 1000 RBCDs that rarely if ever get played?

I suppose when they change the codec once again and we hear what high res is really all about..... the stuff of nightmares!

It's grim consolation that the great majority of my 1800-ish RBCDs will never see new life on SACD.

Post by Kutyatest December 11, 2012 (197 of 315)
hiredfox said:

Are you sure? Several of my mid 70's LP's have "29/6 pence" stickers on them. To the rest of the world that means 29 shillings & six pence = 1/2 of one shilling... which translates to £1.49 in new money

20 shillings = £
12 pence = 1 shilling

Yes - I'm quite sure, despite no longer owning many of them. I started spending hard-earned money properly in about 1975, by which time pre-decimal currency was a distant thing of the past in the UK. If you bought any LPs in the mid-70s with an imperial price label on them, the shop had them hanging about for a long time - and I doubt they would have accepted your 29S/6D.

Sorry to drag this thread off-course though.

Post by Ritmoman77 December 11, 2012 (198 of 315)
I have about 110! Never counted them before. Hope to acquire more as time goes on. More jazz and classical titles coming out all the time. Most of mine are jazz, with some rock and classical titles. First ones I got were RCA classical reissues. Now I'm getting the Verve jazz reissues. I have one of the few players out there that plays sacds in native DSD format, the Esoteric SA-60. Needless to say my cd and lp collections dwarf my sacds.

Post by pescholl December 12, 2012 (199 of 315)
I have around 200, give or take. Mostly classical.

Post by Iain December 12, 2012 (200 of 315)
Ritmoman77 said:

.......... Needless to say my cd and lp collections dwarf my sacds.

My media collection is the other way round. SA-CD dwarf LP and RBCD as back in the day, collecting such rubbish was unthinkable:
1) LP - nil
2) RBCD - 6
3) SA-CD - 44
4) BD - 11

That all changed of course when I discovered SA-CD three years ago. I've added 10+ titles this past year (quality alone determines purchase decision).

Hope to add many more SA-CD titles in the new year, as all my system upgrades are complete now.

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