Playing SACD on a Non-SACD Player

Duh! I never said they could.

Rwwear, you did earlier write:

One still gets the benefits from DSD when playing an SACD disc back in a redbook machine.

...which seems to suggest one can play SACD discs in redbook machines. So, please pardon my confusion.

I understand your point now, though, and I was about to post a clarification in my earlier reply.

Thanks for stating your view more clearly.

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.