[crazzy kopite]

What does Hybird/CD/Sacd mean. I am thinking of buying the police Every Breath You Take classics for £9.99 from play and it has this in the normal cd list but does not have it in super audio cds.

[owenw]

There a 3 types of Super Audio CD:

1. Single layer high-density SACD
2. Dual layer high-density SACD
3. Dual layer with 1 CD layer and 1 high density SACD layer

The Hybrid SACD is the third variety which has both a CD recording and a SACD recording on the same disc.
The CD layer can be played on normal CD players but the SACD layer requires a SACD player (or DVD player with SACD playback abilities).

For more on this check out the Technology link on this site:
http://www.superaudio-cd.com/

hth,
Owen

[sticker]

Is one type superior to the others?

[owenw]

The sound quality will potentially be the same regardless of which SACD disc type is used.

I say potentially because the quality of the actual recordings is down to the recording methods (new DSD recordings are going to have much higher quality than a recording made from 20-30 year old master tapes.)

Not all SACD's will be of the same quality just as not all CD's are of the same quality.

The other thing which makes a big difference is when they release a SACD with both a 2 channel and 5.1 channel mix of the same songs on a disc.

Owen