Post by werdon September 11, 2015 (1 of 3)
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For me it is a pity that on sa-cd.net the actual growing number of titles is no longer shown. I kept record of this since March 2005. Every time it passed a hundred new SACD titles I noted the date. With this info it was nice to see the increase in the growing number of titles over a certain period of time. I sincerely hope that for the time being a decrease in releases will not be yet (seen) at the horizon.
I also like that people discuss rumours about certain plans in the forum. For instance about new SACD releases from a band and the wish for more. Pink Floyd is a good example. “when will The Wall be released on SACD” . A search through the forum would come up with some answers – maybe not the answer you’re looking for, but better than nothing. Search in Forum is no longer supported in the old site Seems all gone with the new site. I miss that and would like to see it return in the new site. I hope it does.
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Post by soundboy September 11, 2015 (2 of 3)
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Post by Ad Rhenum September 12, 2015 (3 of 3)
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Ah, numbers!
The public library of Rotterdam, Netherlands claims to have Europe's largest music collection (on lp and cd). Among them are nearly 4000 hybrid sa-cd's. According to the year of release/purchase, as on their website muziekweb.nl their purchase per year were:
2000: 7 (1) 2001: 2 (2) 2002: 22 (12) 2003: 153 (78) 2004: 320 (171) 2005: 398 (243) 2006: 378 (279) 2007: 381 (307) 2008: 362 (292) 2009: 368 (333) 2010: 316 (290) 2011: 285 (257) 2012: 267 (252) 2013: 243 (226) 2014: 258 (241) 2015: 144 (134) (first half year)
Most of their collection is classical (± 80%), no imports, mainly new recordings (exept remasters from Pentatone and Praga). These numbers are probably a better representation of the popularity of sa-cd then the number added per year on this site.
edit: between brackets the number of classical music recordings made in the 21st century
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