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Am I the only one purchasing hybrid disc's.......

That doesn't listen to them in SACD? I've noticed in some of these that the 2 channel playback doesn't even come close to normal 'quality' 2 channel playback. The last recording I bought was given high marks for 'audio quality' and I thought it was closed in and dullish (the performance wasn't so hot either!).

Is there something in the production of these disc's like for instance the mike set up or the engineers choices in the mix which causes them to focus on the multi-channel effects at the expense of the main channels? I don't think I hear this as often (if ever) on the non multi-channel SACD disc's.

Comments?
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ben_campbell
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I have a reasonable amount of hybrids (approx 45) and I only listen to the redbook layer.
Simply because my CD player(Ayre CX7) is better than my SACD player (Sony DVPNS900V).
ben_campbell
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As far as I can remember all of the hybrids I have sound better on the redbook layer than previous versions of the CD .

All of them I think have been remastered from previous incarnations.

I can't think of too many that exist in superior versions to the SACD hybrids or are indeed different and by that I mean released in a similar timescale.

For instance the Dylan Hybrid series was released only on Redbook about a year after the initial release.
Surely the Redbook versions were identical?
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