Post by Fugue June 23, 2012 (271 of 366)
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If the plant is indeed in danger of closing, then I wish Chandos would issue ALL of their new releases in SACD until the plant closes.
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Fugue said:
If the plant is indeed in danger of closing, then I wish Chandos would issue ALL of their new releases in SACD until the plant closes.
There's still bluray and if these are indeed PCM, then for multichannel users there could be that. Bluray is still being produced.
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Post by stvnharr June 23, 2012 (273 of 366)
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I think this issue of the sacd plant(s) etc. has been sufficiently explained by tailspn earlier. I think the hand wringers here are overblowing this by a lot. One must remember that there are many plants that produce rbcd's. So if there is only one doing sacd's well obviously if something happens to that one plant......
And that is all that Ralph Couzens wrote. He didn't say that anything was in danger of closing.
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flyingdutchman said:
Bluray is still being produced.
Is it?
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flyingdutchman said:
There's still bluray and if these are indeed PCM
Are they indeed PCM?
Do they use native PCM or Delta sigma PCM A/D converters?
And do any blu-ray players support native pcm for that matter, or do all of them convert pcm to delta sigma in the end?
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canonical said:
Is it?
I thought they killed the format last year?
No wonder Sony's projected loss is currently at $6.4 billion.
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Post by pacwin June 24, 2012 (277 of 366)
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I have several Kansas city chorale recordings which have the Sound/mirror logo on them. These are surely DSD recordings? I.e. CHSA 5055, 5044, 5045, 5031, 5066. Can Couzens come up with a corrected list? There may be others.
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Post by raffells June 24, 2012 (278 of 366)
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canonical said:
Is it?
Blu ray IS still being produced.
Ive seen them in the Bricks and Hardware stores
Plenty of them.
Now , as regards sacds being there. Hmmmmmm
meanwhile ,looking at the blu ray capabilities rather that previous DVD based restrictions on digital flow.? 9.6Mbps limit.
Hence the need for MLP on DVDA to get 24/96 to the rear channels and the obvious magic wand for DSD to get there with its even wider frequency band?
It seems
LPCM
Max. Bitrate 27.648 Mbit/s
Bits/sample 16, 20, 24
8 channels (48 kHz, or 96 kHz), 6 (192 kHz)
This probably explains why 88.2 recordings (here I am guessing Naxos) upscales
to 96hz and it IS NOT AN IMPROVEMENT.
So if Chandos decide to go Bluray in future ,That is If and When the last sacd plant in Europe shuts down then they are handily placed for bluray releases and Im guessing the surrounds will be genuine 24/96.With NO DSD NOISE.
ps as regards sony losses,
http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/archives/973
Hope those Turkish pilots were not using it?.
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raffells said:
Blu ray IS still being produced.
Ive seen them in the Bricks and Hardware stores
Plenty of them.
Have you seen any blu-ray audio titles?
To my knowledge Sony hasn't released even 1 blu-ray audio disc to date.
And I wouldn't expect the situation to change in the future, considering Sony's financial situation.
Introducing a new physical format that's not compatible with CD players could get SONY into even more trouble...
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Post by zeus June 24, 2012 (280 of 366)
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pacwin said:
I have several Kansas city chorale recordings which have the Sound/mirror logo on them. These are surely DSD recordings? I.e. CHSA 5055, 5044, 5045, 5031, 5066. Can Couzens come up with a corrected list? There may be others.
This seems like an opportune time to completely break from tabulating recording methods (actually just original bit format) and refocus the site on reviews instead. The aim here has always been to base sonic evaluations on actual listening. If a label wants to submit this information (as part of the Description field) I'll record this (along with any other distinctions, awards etc) and will make this data visible when I get enough submissions with such information. Reviewers are also free to note this information, as they see fit.
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