Why JVC XRCDs are so expensive?

Get the XRCD Blues CD Mighty Sam McClain "Give it up to love" . If you don't think this disk sounds great , Give it up!

is XRCD as good as SACD? if it was wounldn't the whole SACD debate be finished?

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Tuna: You're comparing apples and oranges. XRCD is a mastering process. SACD is a medium. An SACD can sound great or lousy, depending on how it's mastered. I predict that someday JVC will come out with XRSACDs, which will sound demonstrably better than run-of-the-mill SACDs. And cost more.

not my comparison Bomarc it was Loayuap original comments that sparked the question. I know the difference between the two but it is still releveant to make comparrsions assuming equal equipment is used in the comparrsion.

World class SACD verves world class redbook playing XRCD. Loayuap was making a comparrison for which I have an opinion but I was wondering about others so Loayuap could set this issue aside.

Should Loayuap pursue XRCD or should he/she buy and SACD player and spend less on his software purchases? I think this was part of the original question.

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Sorry, cd, if I put more into your brief post than was there. I'd expect that a well-mastered low-resolution disc will always be better than a not-so-well-mastered high-resolution disc. I'd also expect that two identically mastered discs, one CD and one SACD, would sound remarkably similar.

The trouble with comparisons to date is that there's no way to know whether you're really comparing identical masterings. It takes very little tweaking to make two otherwise identical recordings sound quite different. Even when you've got a double-layered disc with DSD and Redbook versions, you can't be sure that somebody didn't nudge something somewhere. Some people have even suggested that record companies may intentionally tweak the sound of SACDs to make them sound dramatically different. I'm not so conspiratorial. All you need is one engineer to say, "Hey, this sounds good, let's try it."