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Steve Reich, Music For 18 Musicians (this is actually the second copy of this piece I've bought this year but it sounds absolutely incredible) Can, Tago Mago (got Ege Bamyasi and Future Days on the way too and I am PSYCHED) Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde (ironically I got this because my other copy is one of those MoFi 3xLP sets to be played at 45 RPM and I was sick of getting up five times whenever I listened to this album, but the SACD is still a 2-disc job so I still don't have a copy of this album I can listen to without dragging my lazy ass out of my chair) I still don't like it as much as Wish You Were Here, Meddle, Piper, or Animals, but I finally see what all the hype is about) Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon (I actually could never really get into this album until now - it just never clicked with me any of the times I tried to give it a chance. Roxy Music, Avalon (PLEASE make an effort to get this if you are doing the whole SACD thing at all it sounds GLORIOUS) Bryan Ferry, Bete Noire and Boys & Girls (both of these sound outrageously smooth) my primary sound system for watching movies & playing games in 5.1 is a Bose soundbar, and for some reason the player only sends stereo signals through (although I can play DVD-A discs just fine on my PS4) so I've been listening to everything on my stereo setup (Outlaw RR2150 -> a pair of Polk towers and a matching sub). So a friend of mine has been hard-selling me on SACDs for a while now and I finally took the plunge (plus now I have a region-free blu-ray player I can take to other people's houses). So it seems the BDP-S6200 is clearly the cheapest Bluray player around that also plays Super Audio, even though Sony has inexplicably failed to advertise it as such.

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For whatever reason the factory-made player doesn't have SACD support, but once you download the latest firmware (which happens automatically once you connect the player to the net), you get a new menu where you change the format to SACDs and choose between stereo and surround sound on the SACD. So I took the risk and bought it, and it does indeed support SACDs in surround and all.

Talk talk spirit of eden sacd manual#

And the thing is, nowhere on Sony's official website or even in the user manual does it say that the BDP-S6200 support SACDs, but the people on the message board said that it still does. But then I found some message board conversations about the BDP-S6200, which is the second best Bluray player Sony offers, but considerably cheaper (179 euros at my local electronics store). The cheapest I was able to find was Sony's BDP-S7200, which was still 300 euros. But after searching for a while, it seemed most of the players that support both formats were pricey ones made by those hifi labels like Marantz or Denon. I just wanted to share this info in case anyone else was in the same situation: I was going to buy a new Bluray player, and I wanted to finally get one that could also play surround SACDs, because I wanted to put my surround speakers into good use. There were also many classical and jazz recordings made in 3-channel 'Living Stereo' as far back as the late 1950s. But in recent years, particularly since the advent of DVD-Audio, SACD, and other digital formats, there's been some interest in reissuing those forgotten '70s quad albums in modern digital formats like 5.1 Dolby Surround (which adds a front center channel, usually for voice, and a separate subwoofer feed for improved bass).

Of course, none of the quadraphonic formats would ever gain critcal mass, and quad disappeared by the end of the decade.Įventually, multichannel sound did catch on after DVDs became available, though more for film and video-game soundtracks than music. Not wanting to bet on the wrong horse, consumers sat it out until a favourite emerged.

Unfortunately, the industry ensured quadraphonic's commercial failure by not resolving a 3-way format war - each of three new 4-channel formats were backward-compatible with stereo but incompatible with each other. Upgrading your stereo to multichannel sound meant a substantial investment in a new quad receiver, at least two new speakers, a quad phono cartridge and/or quad tape player, and quad records or tapes to play.

Actually, there was a big push into 4-channel 'quadraphonic' sound in the early to mid-'70s, and thousands of records were recorded in quad.