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Redbook Quality on Hybrid SACD's

Is it necessarily the case that listening to the redbook layer on a hybrid SACD would be any different from listening directly to a redbook CD? I am about to purchase "Opera Arias", a new (and first) release by Anna Netrebko. I have a universal DVD player (Pioneer 563a) that I could play the SACD through, just out of curiosity. But I don't want to lose quality when played as a normal CD. Advise? Thanks.
peter_s
darrylhifi
498 posts
 
In general the redbook quality of a Hybrid SACD seems better that the redbook quality of a standard CD.
So I would say IMO the odds are slim the redbook layer will be worse than the standard cd. It should be at least as good, with a reasonable chance that its even better !
rcprince
2,830 posts
 
A similar question raised recently on the SACD forum at AA. The response I find best is from Michael Bishop of Telarc, who says that unless there was a different master used for the CD version (which could indeed happen), it should (and at Telarc, at least, is) the same disc whether CD or the CD layer of a hybrid disc.
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