Re: [ARSCLIST] OK - Does Anyone Know More About This?

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Er, OK Don but the fact is the major owners of content have pretty much abandoned the format. Yes, 
some small labels catering to audiophiles do continue to make releases, mostly classical music but 
some jazz. Fact is, SACD failed as anything approaching a mainstream format.

You raise a good question about quad uptake vs. SACD and you might be right but note that 
SACD-enabled players are not all DVD players by a long stretch, so they are a tiny subset of the 
installed DVD base. Also note that DVD-audio pretty much failed as a mainstream format, too, 
although some niche players are definitely active in that format too.

Bottom line is, more than 2 speakers for music-only listening is just not appealing to most people 
despite how much you and I might like listening in surround sound.

-- Tom Fine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Cox" <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, June 15, 2007 8:22 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] OK - Does Anyone Know More About This?


<snip>

> SACD is doing much better than Quad did. There is a steady couple-of-
> dozen titles per month being released, and the number of people who have
> DVD players and surround speakers that can also play SACD must be many
> times greater than the number that installed Quad setups.
<snip>

> Regards
> --
> Don Cox
> doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx