SACD & DVD-Audio Bargains

McFaber

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No, but it's very very good. Again see link


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Tetlee

Received this today and just been listening to it, good album and a very nice sounding disc for stereo only, well worth the fiver

AFM1

Beck - sea change - sacd - £68 - excellent condition - too much?
Or fairly typical?

strolls

Only two listed in eBay's completed items worldwide, both US sales, one went for £41.66   £19.44 P&P, the other for £49.97   £4.51 P&P.

I'm not immediately finding any better prices than that. Amazon sellers on the US site have it for $89, on the UK one for £86.94.

A lot of these out-of-print SACDs (see also: the Rolling Stones) feel rather overpriced to me, but they are out-of-print and I don't see prices dropping overnight.

BrianMW

I now this one turned out to be the standard CD but you can get to from Play.com for £4.98 delivered on playtrade if anyone is interested?

Supernature (Limited Edition SACD With Bonus DVD)

Edit: ah, gone already, glad I ordered it at that price...

AFM1

RE Beck - Sea Change on SACD:

I actually got the $89 amazon US one, so with shipping i think it was around £68.  Glad I did too - the one I was looking at on ebay was at around $32 at the time, but it completed last night at $271 (about £176 shipping), so it kind of was a (relative) bargain - ish!

gagaga

And still the record companies think we want 160-256 kbps MP3s....

realafrica

Re record co's:
I wonder how many MP3s they would have to sell to get $271?
But they will not have eared a cent from the sale on ebay!
They are soooo stoooopid

instigator

Yes, interesting point...

What is the general term for this type of audio? Is it HD audio? What are the current popular delivery platforms? Blu ray music discs? Sacd from what I remember is already considered a dead medium by the labels? Is it coming back ie new discs are now being made or are people just fighting for the last available discs? Online hd download shops?

I'm just thinking about getting into this stuff...

realafrica

SACDs are still being made, but of course these are still predominantly Classical music, which is only fine if you like that kind of music. The odd few DVD-As are still being made too eg Steven Wilson related: Porcupine Trees, King Crimson, NoMan as well as a few Classical. Analog Productions is releasing new SACDs on a regular basis as well as top class vinyl.
Some labels are well behind Blu Rays and releasing whole series of Classical music on Audio only BD. eg all the sonatas of Beethoven over several discs etc.. Pink Floyd is releasing it's back catalogue on Blu Ray, Dark Side Of The Moon & Wish You Were Here so far and recently Jethro Tull - Aqualung on Blu. Last year there was a particularly nice release of Tom Petty Live - Anthology on Blu too. Others I have forgotten for the moment.
However I think the biggest sales seem to be with Hi Res downloads: eg Linn, HDTracks etc. these both have 24bit/96kHz and 24/88.4 flac as the common format. The former has some blu rays and surround music, but the latter is, so far, exclusively stereo, but with a larger catalogue.

I would say the general term is 'Hi Res' audio. HD being more of a video term. However I have seen some people use the term 'Hi Res mp3' which is an oxymoron if ever there was one