where to find sacd's??


I just ordered a sony s9000es, now where can I find any sacd's to try out? Has anyone heard this unit yet?
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Kkirkpa:For sure you have to look for the SACD. Not sure if you said what you meant but the Telarc "red book" 16./44.1 CD of an original DSD recording will play on both standard CD players and SACD players. It's probably more useful to refer to the discs as SACD rather than DSD. Most available SACD at this point were not originally recorded in DSD although obviously the original master (whether analogue or digital) is transferred to DSD to make the SACD. As an aside, an additional benefit of the SACD will be that digital masters from machines like the Mitsubishi X-80 formerly used by Tom Jung of DMP will be heard unsullied by transfer to the old Sony format for the first time. Also, it should be more clear than ever of the superiority of good analogue masters compared to Sony digital master tapes of the past 20 years.