Why is SACD so restricted?

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I think that those of us who want our SACDs ripped have already cobbled together the way to do it.  Talk about a niche within a niche!

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1 minute ago, botrytis said:

SACD was originally designed as a way to backup masters by Sony/Philips. This was told to me in a discussion with people from DCS who helped design it.

Had the same discussion with Ed Meitner.

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3 hours ago, sandyk said:

 And then when you do, you are often likely to find a file bandwidth limited to <22.05kHz , but with added out of band

HF noise !  Perhaps the HF noise appears to give the impression of added HF detail in some cases ?  😉

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8 hours ago, sandyk said:

There are plenty of SACDs that appear to have come from the original RBCD master

Thanks for the explanation, I just wasn’t sure what you were referring to.   Yeah, those are out there.  Almost all of my SACDs are Sony, Audio Fidelity, MoFi, AP, etc, so although not tested I’m pretty confident those have the full bandwidth content.

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2 hours ago, sandyk said:

has been conned by Sony

LOL I guess I wouldn’t expect much out of a compilation CD!  Only thing better would be if it was disco.  Note that it was issued by SONY Taiwan, not Japan.

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3 hours ago, sandyk said:

So what is the excuse for Dire Straits-Love Over Gold , where I posted it's Frequency Spectrum ,

or this one from America-Homecoming ? 

Yo!  I’m not the one making the SACDs.  You’re being pedantic again.