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Have you heard SACD?

Just spent better part of an evening, picking jaw up off floor after listening to SACD sampler disc about seven times in a row on newly obtained Sony 9000ES. If you haven't heard SACD, please, please, go listen to one. It is a statue of beautiful proportions and curves compared to CD's poster-flat presentation. The sound comes alive, and the music is THERE with you. Tonally, it is awesome, with every detail, nuance, hint of sound clearly presented in its proper place, with no brightness or etched quality. Bass is round, firm, fleshy. Midrange will carress you. Does that seem a bit too sensuous for audio? This isn't audio any more. It's not just electronic junk coming from wires and plastic. It occupies space and has at least four, maybe six sides to it. All this with a $15K SS system. With tubes, I would expect even more life.
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aida_w
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Yes I have.
You guys better go out and do a good job in the advertising industry :-)
What sense - in all fairness - can it make to transfer CDs to a new format and accept the hiss that transaction creates or has at the same time? That isn't even HIFI level to do so.
Listen to REAL music and then listen to SACD. Hear the difference? Sure - it is a DIFFERENT difference from the real thing than CD or Vinyl is, but that's it! High End ALWAYS will stick to that difference - and well so! A Steinway grand is a Steinway no matter if you have it on SACD or whatever. We all can save a lot of money accepting that our CD collections of thousands of CDs are very close to real music played over a true High End system. The sound may be different but it is so with the change of every cable.
Viva la difference and keep up the good music!
Cheers
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