Are you going to buy the Rolling Stones SACDs?

They need time to get everyone worked up so we will want to buy them, but first they have to hype aging boomers into thinking that SACD is worth buying the same old recordings twice and three times. Give me a break folks, we already went through this game with CD. And once again, twenty years later, it's like we were born yesterday. Sony is in it for the profit, their strategy of getting us to feel 'deprived' by delaying software is perfectly consistent with good marketing techniques and will work well once the software is released.
Remastering to sound decent on current equipment (that is, cheap SACD players) takes time and money, and Sony needs you to repay that effort, no matter now misguided. It's exploitative (the waning rock groups are more than happy to take your money again and again too, of course). You want the stones? Break out your cassettes and 8 tracks and vinyl, and at the last resort, your CDs. Or tape a copy from someone. Much cheaper! And perfectly consistent with the quality of the sonics involved.
Remember when rock and roll was protest music? Now it's a parlor game for baby boomers sporting fat wallets, who are experiencing a delayed reaction to the sixties.
-Tom

I've got all of them on order. Half of them should arrive this week, the rest after Labor Day. I've always been a Stones fan, but never really got around to buying a lot of their stuff -- I have only a couple LPs and one CD. While I expect the full collection will have some amount of uninteresting (to me) material, I wanted to (1) get all the cuts that I do like, (2) get it on SACD, remastered to boot, and (3) have the complete set as a collectible block. SACD should have had this kind of software support much earlier.

I may buy a few. My SACD is in for repairs. It currently will not play hybreds....

The stones were never my favorite either. There are several greatest hits disks amongst those released. Since they are hybrids, and I don't own many of their albums or CDs, I decided to try a few. I do wonder how much of this is exploitation, but there is a good deal of music that had really lousy original CD mastering and might be worth trying on SACD.

Making SACD's is not as trivial as it sounds. There still is a limited amount of pro gear out there that works in DSD, and the bulk of it works with a maximum of 8 channels. DSD digital editors are also a rare breed. Not to mention that there is only one Hybrid manufacturing plant in the world (at this point, a new 2nd plant in Hollywood is scheduled to begin manufacturing in mid to late September). That's a hellova bottleneck.