Playing SACD on a Non-SACD Player


Is there any benefit at all to playing a SACD on a normal red book player? Is there added information on SACD that will benefit the overall sound?
Thanks,
Lee
lkissinger
No. In fact, your redbook player will not read an SACD single layer disk at all, and on a hybrid disk it will read only the redbook layer.
You can only play hybrid SACD's on a redbook player. There are two layers (redbook and SACD) on these types of discs. A redbook player can not read the SACD layer. If it is a SACD only disc, a redbook player will not read it at all.
Some people say that the redbook layer on dual-layer SACD's is inferior to standard redbook. The claim is that the industry does this to make listeners unhappy with redbook. I don't own a SACD and so haven't been able to verify this. But I steer clear of dual-layer software.
Jay