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OPPO's long-awaited BDP-83 universal Blu-ray player now shipping {Engadget}
Jul 7th 2009 12:03PM Nicceee. ... I like the SACD feature ... hi-rez audio + hi-rez vid
Pioneer gives its PDX-Z10 SACD player an iPod boost {Engadget HD}
May 3rd 2009 12:40PM > Pioneer Japan's PDX-Z10 SACD player will be a welcome addition to those audiophiles who actually want a wide selection of content
That makes no sense at all.
First, every SACD player can play all the SACD content + every CD on the market, so SACD provides more content; not less.
Second, if you are talking only about Hi-REZ content --- well, any audiophile interested in hi-rez is hardly going to be playing mp3 files off an iPod, are they? rofl. don't think an iPod's D/A converter will do anything better than CD quality anyway. And, since a standard SACD file is about 5 gig in size, even if you could get such content onto your iPod, you'd only get a few albums onto it before it is full.
Third, there are now over 5500 hi-rez SACDs on the market from over different 440 labels. That's exponentially more hi-rez content on SACD than ALL the other hi-rez formats combined (DVD-Audio, hi-rez downloads, Blu-ray audio), which total in the low hundreds. SACD might be small compared to the whole CD industry, but in the hi-rez world, it is king.
Pioneer gives its PDX-Z10 SACD player an iPod boost {Engadget HD}
May 3rd 2009 12:14PM Actually, if you look what's happening, the mass market is going to downloads (almost always at even lower quality than CD 16bit /44.1kHz), and at the other extreme, the audiophile market is moving to hi-rez SACD. CD as an audiophile concept is finished. Marantz have basically moved their entire line-up of standalone players to SACD. Pioneer - moved lineup to SACD. Yamaha - almost all SACD. Sony - same: they only sell 1 standalone CD player today - everything else is now SACD. And the real big boys of the audiophile market - Krell and Mark Levinson - don't even sell ANY CD players anymore. Finished. Kaput. They've both moved from CD to hi-rez SACD.
