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HDCD a flash in the pan already??

I started looking for a new CD Player a while back but put the search on the backburner for a bit(needed a new sub & picked up a Onix Rocket UFW-10)so now it's back to CD Player hunting and it seems to me there are less HDCD players coming out then when I orginally researched. For example the new Music Player 25.2 isn't HDCD ready where the CD-25 was nor is Onix's best CD Player CD-2(their lower one xcd-99 is). Even though they're out of my price range players newly released players like the Rega Apollo,Cambridge Azur 640 or Naim CD5i do not appear to be HDCD. Is this another format that isn't going to make it or just a option on lower end players. I was recently at a couple local CD stores (Borders, Fye and Barnes and Noble) and there were at the most 3 HDCD Cds there none of which I would be interested in.. Starting to seem like HDCD shouldn't even be an option to look for in my CD Player search.. Any comments?
pmt1209
tvad
9,467 posts
 
02-14-06: Tbg
Tvad, at least we can agree on this. Since my Lindemann some time ago, I have sought players that decode HDCD. Now that Winston Maw of FIM is issuing mainly in HDCD, I have been buying many.

By the way, the RealityCheck improves HDCD and copies do play as HDCD.
Tbg (Threads | Answers)
Just can't post any agreement with me without tossing in the RealityCheck issue, can you? I see you took your ball and went home on that thread.

Let it go, Tbg. We're both like pitbulls with bones.

Let's enjoy the few things on which we can agree, and leave the rest behind. Palaver and all.
jsonic
227 posts
 
If anyone likes The Grateful Dead they still issue live recordings from The Dick's Picks series and other live stuff on HDCD. It sounds really good. Their studio box set remasters on Rhino also are on HDCD.
tgrisham
1,179 posts
 
My HDCD discs are incredibly detailed and spacious. The cost of incorporating the technology was prohibitive for some record companies and artists. My Classe player is great and even greater with HDCD, but I suspect few will incorporate it in the future. Too bad...
essentialaudio
1,147 posts
 
Fatparrot, complete information on HDCD can be found by doing a patent search. Keith O. Johnson and Michael W. "Flash" Pflaumer were the principals who developed it at Pacific Microsonics. Microsoft bought the rights to HDCD some years ago but didn't seem to do anything with it.
Brian
tbg
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Tvad, I was not trying to provoke you. I had just tried a copy of an HDCD. This thread had provoked me to try it. I was not moving the war here. Sorry!

Tgrisham, Denon seems to have some committment to HDCD. Since I thought that only the Pacific Microsonics chip could really decode HDCD and I know Denon does not use it, I do not know how they decode HDCD. The light for HDCD does come on however.
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