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Redbook layer on SACD - good enough?

New age is coming... just discovered a title that does exist on SACD, but doesn't (on the labels I would like) on CD. I thought to buy SACD with CD layer to play on my Sim Nova CDP, but my concern is whether being on SACD can compromise redbook quality comparing to a "pure" CD.

Your thoughts, please?
dmitrydr

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ben_campbell
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KR4-I have the new Miles Davis box set The Complete Jack Johnson-it was mastered using the DSD process but it is NOT a SACD nor hybrid.
So if the information on this is correct then the DSD process can be used to make CD's as well as SACD's.
ben_campbell
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It's been my experience with hybrids that the mixes are identical on the different layers-it's just the actual replay formats that are different.
As such any difference is down to the superiority or otherwise of the format.
I've found the Redbook remastering all recent hybrid SACD's with the exception of DSOM to easily beat their previous incarnations on CD.
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