It has been some time since I wrote the controversial, but much needed article titled, "DVD Audio & SACD The Royal Scam". I did not write this article to bash new technologies, nor to be a ...

When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played over a good home theater system, it’s not surprising that Sony/Philips and the DVD ...

The Super Audio CD (SACD) format may never have entered the mainstream market after Sony and Philips started pushing it back in 1999, but some audio fanatics out there still believe in the quality of ...

And while we’re talking about home audio, it’s probably good to mention that Onkyo is shipping the DV-CP802, the first six-disc DVD carousel that plays almost all current media disc formats, including ...

Ten years ago SACD and DVD-Audio were hailed as the next big things. Everyone thought multichannel music would soon replace stereo, but stereo's still here and 5.1 music is nearly extinct. Ex-movie ...

Looking for that final CD player or transport that can play every format including DSD and SACD? The new PS Audio PerfectWave SACD transport is shipping. Contrary to what you might have read online, ...

Sony has been dealing with LCDs for years. Liquid crystal displays abound in their phones, PDAs, computers and TVs. Now Sony is embracing another kind of LCD: lowest common denominator. Instead of ...

This past summer, Marantz revealed its new flagship “Series 10” range of hi-fi components. It consisted of three products: the Model 10 integrated amplifier, the SACD 10 SACD/CD player and the Link ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1999, music consumption was shifting in a new direction. As home internet connections got faster, users discovered improvements that had ...

The AD1955 24-bit stereo audio digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is designed for use in high-end super audio CD (SACD) players and a variety of other consumer and professional equipment. Based on a ...

The venerable CD is being pummeled on two fronts, the most prominent beating coming from the online digital download side — iTunes/iPod, et al. But less prominent and far more significant to packaged ...

Original Publish Date: 12/23/01 - Much of the content in this article has been addressed via hardware, but we keep it live for archival purposes. Software selection however is still the big issue ...