Thread: newbie to SACD : all the different types of SACD listed on the SACD sites?

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Post by gregc September 19, 2004 (1 of 2)
Just purchased a SACD player (modified Phillips SACD1000). Been looking around the net for different SACD purchase sites. Kind of confusing...for example....Music Direct CD.com list the SACD's as 1. SACD, 2.Hybrid SACD, 3.SACD5.1, 4. HYBRIDSACD5.1, 5. SACD only......
For the SACD: is this just SACD stereo or is it SACD 5.1 or both...
HYBRIDSACD: is this just stereo or 5.1 also along with the standard CD layer.
HYBRIDSACD5.1...what is this? 5.1 SACD only along with a standard CD layer?
I am using my SACD player just for stereo (not interested multi-channel), my video system surround sound 5.1 is seperate from my music playbcak system (stereo)........anyway how can one tell all these different formats apart?
Just want to be able to tell which formats have SACD stereo, does not matter to me if the 5.1 is there, as long as I can listen to the SACD in SACD stereo.

Post by LC September 19, 2004 (2 of 2)
gregc said:

Just purchased a SACD player (modified Phillips SACD1000). Been looking around the net for different SACD purchase sites. Kind of confusing...for example....Music Direct CD.com list the SACD's as 1. SACD, 2.Hybrid SACD, 3.SACD5.1, 4. HYBRIDSACD5.1, 5. SACD only......
For the SACD: is this just SACD stereo or is it SACD 5.1 or both...
HYBRIDSACD: is this just stereo or 5.1 also along with the standard CD layer.
HYBRIDSACD5.1...what is this? 5.1 SACD only along with a standard CD layer?
I am using my SACD player just for stereo (not interested multi-channel), my video system surround sound 5.1 is seperate from my music playbcak system (stereo)........anyway how can one tell all these different formats apart?
Just want to be able to tell which formats have SACD stereo, does not matter to me if the 5.1 is there, as long as I can listen to the SACD in SACD stereo.

Every SA-CD has a stereo DSD program. The only exceptions are when old mono recordings are transferred to SA-CD, but the mono program still uses the stereo section of the disc.

Many SA-CDs also have a multichannel program, encoded on a physically separate section of the disc.

Most SA-CDs are a "hybrid" disc, which means there is a physically separate layer, behind the high-density layer, that contains a regular stereo CD program. The high-density layer is only resolved with a special, shorter wavelength SA-CD laser and is transparent to a regular CD laser, so the disc will play as a CD in any regular CD player.

Welcome aboard, by the way. I'm sure you'll find this website at least as useful a resource for SA-CD as anything else on the web.

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