Playing SACD on a Non-SACD Player

Tvad,

Exactly, Rwwear's post was misleading in that it implied that
one could play an SACD disc in a redbook player.

A better phrasing would be that the redbook layer of a hybrid
SACD/redbook disc benefits from the fact that the recording
was originally mastered in DSD and downconverted to redbook.

Dr. Gregory Greenman
Physicist

A better phrasing would be that the redbook layer of a hybrid
SACD/redbook disc benefits from the fact that the recording
was originally mastered in DSD and downconverted to redbook.

That I can believe, and the SACD/CD hybrid disk would, in fact, play on a redbook machine.

It may vary, of course, from hybrid to hybrid, but I have not found that the redbook layer of a hybrid disc inferior to a standard redbook (non-hybrid) version.Have others truely found the redbook layer of some hybrids inferior to comparable redbook recordings on non-hybrid discs?

Good Going Lee!! Just look at what you have started!! Rwwear explains the technical side of what I hear, and that is that certain hybrids ( I can't believe I have to spell that out) sound better than my redbook copy on my other systems. This downconverting (super bit mapping)is real. Older material remastered from tape sounds the same as my redbook copy. Rwwear, I'm watching you!! Z.

I agree my first response was not stated as well as it should have been.