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| SACD Player--Do you use it and feel you'd replace it if it broke? Gaucho illustrates the ups and downs of the loudness wars. The first round of CD's released in 1984 (Japan for US, US for US, UK Hoffman master) all had excellent dynamic range of 14 or 15. The 2003 multichannel SACD's 5.1 layer had DR15, its st... | |
| SACD Player--Do you use it and feel you'd replace it if it broke? I have 763 CD's of various types including 82 SACD's, all but one of which are hybrid. They are a mix of pop-rock, jazz, classical, etc. I have owned a Marantz SA-8004 SACD player for a couple of years but did not want to be out of luck if it br... | |
| CD"S I have about 800 CD's, including about 80 SACD's. A few months ago I realized that my interest in them was being deflated by three things--the mediocre quality of some CD's, a lack of information to help me remember which ones I preferred, and di... | |
| 'Unlistenable' early digital recordings? With pop/rock at least, "early" CD's are sometimes poorly mastered but usually listenable and often are a better version than the remastered ones that were produced during the "loudness wars" from about 1995 to about 2005. I have been going throu... |