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Musical Fidelity A5.

10 pages and not one mention of the Musical Fidelity A5 which is a bargain at twice the price. I have the MF TriVista SACD player and the redbook CD is amazing at $6500 new (used $3000). But the A5 I auditioned might have been better on Redbook.

i am a newbie. whats the redbook means? i has been mentioned lots of times in the threat. thx

I don't know where the name redbook came from but it is a standard cd format. Not high resolution format.

Redbook - in audio - is the name of the digital standard that was set when the CD first came out in 1980 as an invention of Philips, a Dutch company. The resolution is 16 bit with a 44.1Hz sample rate, so equivalent to 1411 kbps.

If you want to know more here is a wikipedia link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28audio_CD_standard%29

Happy reading!

Mtkhl567, thanks for the link.

so, why people keep coming back to redbook format while there is alot of better format available today, such as HDCD, XRCD, audiophile version, etc?