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Old 29-12-2002, 5:22 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation Dark Side Of The Moon will now be SACD instead of DVD-Audio ?

Sony has agreed funding to tempt EMI to release several high profile titles in SACD format rather than expected DVD-Audio.
Apparently Pink Floyd 's Dark Side Of The Moon is such.

See www.audiorevolution.com
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Old 12-01-2003, 10:21 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Old 12-01-2003, 10:42 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Can't have it all I guess but I am certainly looking forward to hearing one the finest albums in Rock history in surround sound. Yes siree!
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This has got to be the best news for SACD owners ever !!
If ever there was an album crying out for a 5.1 mix it has to be Dark Side Of The Moon.
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Old 13-01-2003, 10:05 PM   #5 (permalink)
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This has got to be the best news for SACD owners ever !!

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DVD-A would've been the bomb.

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Old 14-01-2003, 3:45 AM   #6 (permalink)
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i agree, for some reason dvd-a just sounds better.
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Old 14-01-2003, 6:25 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Is it definitely not coming on DVD-A now, I thought it was just a rumour?

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Being completely thick, I haven't a clue what SACD is, could someone please explain it in simple terms. What would I need to be able to play it. I have a DVD player and can play 5:1 through my amp, would I be able to use this to enable me to listen.

I have spent a lot of years getting pleasure from this Album, it's fantastic and if I can get a version I can listen to in 5:1, that'll do for me.
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Is it definitely not coming on DVD-A now, I thought it was just a rumour?
Get a Pioneer 656 and you won't have to worry about such minor details
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Old 19-01-2003, 3:46 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Being completely thick, I haven't a clue what SACD is, could someone please explain it in simple terms. What would I need to be able to play it. I have a DVD player and can play 5:1 through my amp, would I be able to use this to enable me to listen.

I have spent a lot of years getting pleasure from this Album, it's fantastic and if I can get a version I can listen to in 5:1, that'll do for me.
I know little of it myself but as far as I know, SACD is Super Audio CD they look like a CD but you need a special player for them, some are hybrids that can be played on a CD player but you will not get the benefits of the SACD.
Do a search on SACD, Uncle Eric did the first ever review of one I read and not all the results were good.
SACD also is only sound only where as DVD Audio you can have the visuals as well. You can get a player that plays DVD’s, CD’ SACD’s and DVD Audio in one unit now.
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I researched SACD and you do not need an SACD player to play SACD's, however you will not get multi channel sound without one. Every SACD has two layers. One layer contains the conventional audio that every cd player can read just fine and the second layer contains the multi channel version, which only an SACD player will be able to read. Can you imagine Dark Side Of The Moon in 5.1 surround sound? I want an SACD player, now!
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Here’s a review on the do it all one http://www.homecinemachoice.com/test...eerDV-747A.php
And you can get the Poineer 656 for £360
http://www.practicalhifi.co.uk/eshop...ion=1571460736
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Old 21-01-2003, 5:10 AM   #13 (permalink)
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all SACDs will NOT play on any cd player. i have 9 and only 4 of those have a cd layer, and none of them will play in a standard dvd video player, the two layers seem to totally confuse the machine. hardly good when more and more people are using dvd players in place of cd players. in contrast, every dvd-audio disc i've seen, i have 15, will play on any dvd player, in dolby digital and/or dts. and now the dvd forum has approved the addition of cd layers to dvd-a discs. apparently the first ones will be double sided, high-res on one side, standard cd on the other. so basically, the idea that sacd will win the war because of it's superior compatibility is a myth. in my opinion, it's only looking good because of the huge amounts of money sony are throwing at it. paying for the mixing and/or mastering of dark side of the moon? sounds a little desperate actually.
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I humbly stand corrected...... I was only quoting what I read on a web site to do with Audio technology.

And by the way, there is nothing desperate (in my honest opinion) of a multi channel Dark Side Of The Moon. It's one of rock's finest albums (again in my opinion) and a beautiful sounding experience, about to be made even more beautiful sounding with the SACD release.
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sorry, that wasn't too clear. i meant sony sound a bit desperate to promote sacd, not doing a multi channel mix. i can't wait to hear the 5.1 either!
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