Thread: No SACD but 17 Vinyl Pressing Plants in the US!

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Post by Bayside Bomber August 23, 2012 (21 of 116)
Of course, shipping costs for SACDs are much lower than for LPs, so there is less need for domestic production.

Post by SnaggS August 23, 2012 (22 of 116)
rammiepie said:

It is NOT a question of American ingenuity.........after all, we have allocated billions to put that probe on the Angry Red Planet.......Mars.....

Don't be surprised if an enterprising American company like Acoustic Sounds eventually has a little stick~um "Made on Mars" on the back of their SACDs.

Unfortunately, America also invented bean counters and financial analysts, which have decimated your manufacturing industry.

Post by rammiepie August 23, 2012 (23 of 116)
SnaggS said:

Unfortunately, America also invented bean counters and financial analysts, which have decimated your manufacturing industry.

And shifted everything over to China in the process and look what it has done for China's ecology......a mess mess..........all the rivers are polluted because of manufacturing paraphernalia seeping into their water supplies.

Americans want everything for nothing and in hindsight, maybe we got what we bargained for in the final analysis...........NADA!

Post by audioholik August 24, 2012 (24 of 116)
Bayside Bomber said:

Of course, shipping costs for SACDs are much lower than for LPs, so there is less need for domestic production.

Good point.

PS Does anybody know how many dvd pressing plants there are in the US? I've heard they can do single layer SACDs after some cheap software upgrading as SACD is a DVD based medium.

Post by audioholik August 24, 2012 (25 of 116)
tailspn said:

And DSD downloads :)

DSD downloads are another option but I think there's a much bigger market for single layer SACDs pressed in the US. Single layer SACDs can be pressed at extremely low prices in the US and the discs can be played on all SACD compatible players including SACD/CD, SACD/DVD and SACD/BD players.

Post by stvnharr August 24, 2012 (26 of 116)
audioholik said:

DSD downloads are another option but I think there's a much bigger market for single layer SACDs pressed in the US.

What gives you cause to think this, given that you do not live in the US?

Post by audioholik August 24, 2012 (27 of 116)
stvnharr said:

What gives you cause to think this, given that you do not live in the US?

Logical thinking.

There are far more people using SACD-compatible players than DSD-compatible USB DACs.

Post by hiredfox August 24, 2012 (28 of 116)
rammiepie said:

Audiophile Audition 8/21/12: An alarming statistic for SACD lovers. There are NO SACD pressing plants in the US as the two existant ones closed some time ago (Carson City, CA and Terre Haute Indiana) but there are 17 Vinyl pressing plants.

According to AA: The cost of domestically produced SACDs will no doubt be on the rise.

This is rather encouraging. The problem with the renaissance of vinyl amongst audiophiles is that it is still hugely dependent on a diminishing stock of well-worn legacy vinyl in junk bins in high-street recycling outlets. Oxfam over here are rapidly assuming the stature of a must visit "record store" for some of us - exciting times are back!

I for one would like to think that the option to produce new vinyl is still available to enterprising people like SFSO and BSO and others if the mood suddenly takes them.

More than a few people 'in the know' in the UK seem to think that a new vinyl wave is already forming amongst audiophiles, partly as a riposte perhaps to an inevitable downloaded e-future without physical disc.

After the conflagration of Rome Nero would still have needed to fiddle with something.

Post by audioholik August 24, 2012 (29 of 116)
hiredfox said:

I for one would like to think that the option to produce new vinyl is still available to enterprising people like SFSO and BSO and others if the mood suddenly takes them.

I wonder if they still have any analog recorders on hand as they moved to hi-rez digital years ago.

Is there at least one classical label that's still recording to tape these days? What's the point of having even 100 vinyl pressing plants if classical record labels don't use analog recorders anymore?

Post by Euell Neverno August 24, 2012 (30 of 116)
rammiepie said:

Perhaps 17 Vinyl presing plants vs. NO domestic SACD pressing plants to me was an eye (or ear) opener since I think SACD would be much more acceptable if all those vinyl releases were multichannel or high quality stereo SACDs.

This format will barely survive on classical only mch SACD releases as the statistics don't lie...........

The domestic SACD producers possibly were eliminated by foreign competition. What is unusual about vinyl is the pricing, which is often double or triple the cost of the average SACD. Now, Japanese EMI reissues are going for prices similar to vinyl. The market is being tested for a luxury goods approach.

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