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SACD - Dying already?

I just read the industry blurb in this month's TAS which described how it seems the stream of SACDs from Sony has pretty much dried up. I was in the largest local independent record store in my area last week and actually bought a SACD because it was music not available on CD. The SACD/DVD-A section was a bit smaller than a year ago and I asked the manager about it. He laughed and said they only sell 2-3 a month combined and he doesn't order many anymore.

Except for audiophiles, is anyone buying these things? Or, are all hopes and dreams of SACD slowly fading away (for at least Sony)?
tomryan

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merge038346
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They are both dead. Mass storage device based music systems will make physical media obsolete soon enough. Witness iPOD, and the steady advancements in Media PCs. This will be a boon to both the music industry (reduced distribution costs) and the audiophile (true high resolution audio and reduced mechanical playback issues).
merge038346
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There is no allure to recording in DSD. There is a multitude of small recording contractors using many different technologies. The fact that SACD is represented as one of the niche recording technologies is meaningless to this this discussion. It doesn't relate to DSD as a distribution media. Those DSD recordings are being distributed as redbook CDs.
merge038346
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Twenty years, huh? Guess they never heard the terms "disruptive technology" or "Moore's Law". Twenty years ago (1984) the interner as we know it, didn't exist (and I had a room full of vinyl and a three head cassette deck). Twenty years from today, you'll be hard pressed to find someone who remembers what SACD even was, or why it was. Sorry, but that's a rather biased opinion from the SACD community. I ain't buying it, SACD is the walking dead.
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