SACD vs. DVD vs. HDCD

Lance if you think mp-3 is ok you should find another hobby.MP-3 contains 8% of the information thats on a cd.I guess your fun party tapes sound like crap or you cant tell the difference.Lets hope dvd wins it is supperior but Sony has a lot of pull.

Highend maybe you need a lesson in mathmatics. Granted mp3's compress to about 10% of their original size the information remains. I am sure you are familiar with zip files. Are you suggesting that zip files contain less information that their originals? Yes, but uncompressed for they are identical to the original. I will not defend MP3's anymore than to say for general listening they are acceptable, especially when you have a baby playing in the room. I much prefer sitting down and listend to CD's played on my Proceed/Levinson equipment, but its not everyday that I can do that in the peace and quite that I prefer. My hope is that DVD audio or SACD become the standard soon.

Lancel2000 I think your off a bit. MP3 is not a lossless compression system whereas Zip is. I don't disagree that its good enough for parties or playing over the vacumm cleaner, but clearly not for and serious listening.

I want a 5 channel SACD/ DVD-Audio, 192 upsampling, progressive scanning ( or maybe Hugh Def), all format player for under $1200. I bet I am not alone, and that sooner or later this is the approach that will be taken by all maqnufacturers. Hopefully sooner than later.