350 SACDs and Counting

The list miss number of SACD's: First Impression Music, Red Rose, Vanuard, ASV are first coming to mind; Sony announce future release of 10 multi-channel, Telatc seven, Delos seven, DMP four, BIS one, Hyperion one, rap labels zero...

I think Sacd is in the lead. For me, there are almost enough titles to consider buying a player. I'll take SACD even more seriously when a multi format player is released. Neither format will really succeed until it is packaged with a DVD player. For most consumers SACD or DVD-A would be a feature as important (or unimportant) as progressive scan.

Two multichannel SACD players are selling. One is the $2,000 list Philips 1000 CD/DVD/SACD player. The second is the $1,700 SCD-C555ES CD/SACD player. Sony has announced 9 additional multichannel players, including three CD/DVD/SACD players ranging from $400 to $1,000 list. A $400 CD/SACD player is due in June. All 9 new players supposed to be out by October.

I agree that a $400 Sony CD/DVD/SACD player should sell quite well. It may sell better than all SACD players sold to date.

If you go to the above mentioned site, check out the search feature by typing ctrl + F.

If you really want to be thorough and think the philips site may be missing some titles you can try this: go to www.amusicdirect.com and you’ll come to a window that asks you to type in the name of an artist you’re looking for. Type in anyone like ‘coltrane’ and click search. The next window that pops up will have ‘coltrane’ selected with more options. Delete ‘coltrane’ (aside: because there are NO SACDs FOR COLTRANE BUT THE SOUNDTRACK FOR THE TITANIC HAS A SACD??!! CELINE DION ??? HAS A SACD!? MEATLOAF!!??!!! HAS A SACD!!!) and go to the ‘type of media’ window and click on sacd then run the search. the idea here is to leave the artist blank. There are 178 sacds listed. You can also search for HDCD and more formats.

Sorry for the outburst.

A very helpful outburst Kubla, thanks!!