Subj : Audiofidelity SACD albums
To : All
From : Eric Oulashin
Date : Sat Jul 26 2014 02:06 pm
Recently I discovered Audio Fidelity, an online store that sells high-quality
audio versions (i.e., SACD) of select albums:
http://www.audiofidelity.net
It looks like many/most of the SACDs they have are "hybrid" discs, meaning they
have both a SACD mix and a regular CD audio mix that can be read by standard CD
players & drives. I've considered buying some of these SACD discs for their
audio quality but there are a couple things I'm wondering about them, and I'm
curious if anyone happens to know anything about these AudioFidelity SACD
albums?
1. Is the standard CD audio on these hybrid SACDs entirely a creation of
Audiofidelity? There are albums that have been re-released as remastered
versions on CD (by whoever normally releases those albums), and I'm curious if
these Audiofidelity SACDs contain that mix or if they're created by
Audiofidelity.
2. I like having audio CDs for the audio quality, but I also like to rip my
music to my computer for convenient access. I could buy a SACD player, but I'd
like to be able to rip the music and play it anywhere. I was looking up how to
rip SACD audio discs, and it looks like the best known way to do so is with an
older-model Playstation 3 with SACD capability and a certain firmware version,
hacking the device, and installing some SACD ripper software onto the device to
rip the disc to an ISO, then reading the audio from the ISO file on a PC. That
sounds more of a hassle than it's worth. Does anyone know if there's an easier
way to rip SACD discs? I was hoping a standard optical drive for PC would be
able to read SACD discs, but I'm guessing there is no such optical drive on the
market.
Eric
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