2. music
  3. 1204668184

No wonder SACD hasn't caught on

I was looking on Circuit City's website and they have over 2000 SACDs for sale. So I took some notes and then went to a local store to check things out. I wandered around in the music section and couldn't find any SACDs or DVD-As either. I thought they might have just mixed them in with the CDs but didn't have any luck locating any. So I went up to a sales person and told him that although I had seen a lot of SACDs on the website, I couldn't seem to locate any.

His response....."What's an SACD?" He looked baffled even after I explained what they were and, of course, he hadn't heard of DVD-A either. Must be the best kept secret in the music industry.
willster
czbbcl's avatar
czbbcl
1,752 posts
 
They are probably hybrids and are mixed in with all the other CD's. I would not expect the salesperson at circuit city to know anything about SACD or even what a Hybrid disc is.

SACD(Hybrid) is a small cottage industry for us audiophols no different than that of vinyl.
sogood51
2,157 posts
 
"03-04-08: Maineiac
I remember the sacd section getting smaller each time I went to look for music at best buy.

Vinyl is the answer."

I haven't been to Best Buy in a year or so, are you saying they stock Vinyl now?.

Dave
willster OP
66 posts
 
Actually, the last time I went to "Best Buy" they had a separate section for SACD and DVD-A.

If you are interested in Classical, the Circuit City website had more of that than any other genre in SACD.

By the way, why is it that any store with a name like "Best Buy", "Pay 'N' Save". etc. is just the opposite. Well, ok, you CAN find good deals at Best Buy but there are a lot of things they stock that have very high prices.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Willster...Was that special section placarded "CLOSE OUT".
sogood51
2,157 posts
 
My wife went to Walmart the other day, and I asked her to pick up the Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions Revisited" CD/DVD for me while she was there...it was listed on their web site for under $15.00.

They did not have it, and the sales person had never heard of the Cowboy Junkies. Two more sales persons, also told her they had never heard of the Cowboy Junkies.

The internet is taking over music sales.

Dave
More to discover