It has been some time since I wrote the controversial, but much needed article titled, "DVD Audio & SACD The Royal Scam". I did not write this article to bash new technologies, nor to be a ...

You can’t always get what you want, but you can always wait for the reissue. Note: The following hybrid audio discs contain a standard CD and a high-resolution SACD, or Super Audio Compact Disc. The ...

The DVD Audio and Super Audio CD formats continued to evolve at CES, where Philips demonstrated multichannel SACD and hardware suppliers revealed that Matsushita and Toshiba have proposed a new DVD ...

Ten years ago SACD and DVD-Audio were hailed as the next big things. Everyone thought multichannel music would soon replace stereo, but stereo's still here and 5.1 music is nearly extinct. Ex-movie ...

When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played over a good home theater system, it’s not surprising that Sony/Philips and the DVD ...

Looking for that final CD player or transport that can play every format including DSD and SACD? The new PS Audio PerfectWave SACD transport is shipping. Contrary to what you might have read online, ...

And while we’re talking about home audio, it’s probably good to mention that Onkyo is shipping the DV-CP802, the first six-disc DVD carousel that plays almost all current media disc formats, including ...

From vinyl records to cassette tapes to compact discs, many music fans have spent their lives upgrading collections to keep up with technology. Now, the industry tells us, there are reasons to invest ...

If you've got money to burn, have been able to find more than five SACD or DVD audio discs that you might actually want to listen to, and don't mind buying equipment that will be rendered obsolete ...

I don't much care about the video portion of the DVD (I assume no one would bother to make a DVD Audio player that doesn't do DVD Video) since I use my PC + projector to watch movies anyway.<BR><BR>I ...

The Red Book audio format used by CDs isn't improved upon by either SACD or DVD-A formats, it turns out. Extensive double-blind listening tests conducted by E. Brad Meyer and David R. Moran have shown ...

Original Publish Date: 12/23/01 - Much of the content in this article has been addressed via hardware, but we keep it live for archival purposes. Software selection however is still the big issue ...