Go Back to CD?

[Cricketbat70]

First, a vinyl revival, then cassette tapes and now CD, exactly as I predicted ages ago.

Thing is, if you rip your CDs to FLAC files and store them, these files are lossless versions and will sound the same.

It's taking me longer than I wanted but that's what I'm doing. Started years ago but just never seem to have the time to get it finished. Then I stream to CCA, Denon RCD-N7. Or at night in bed stream to my phone via Bubble UPnP.

 

[Al ears]

I want, I want!
£1624? Nah, no problem, going to sell my kidney.

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I am hanging on to kidneys and waiting for Lottery win... 😎

 

[manicm]

Yes shame that, something to do with Sony SACD/Blu-ray licensing policy, they charge a hefty fee.
Chinese outfits want none of it. SACD is essentially DSD64 but there's something in the software that ensures compatibility and if the Chinese hack it, it would infringe on the copyright but that hasn't stop them in them in the past.
I agree, nice to have the MQA option but what's the point of it?

Shanling sells a genuine SACD player, haven't checked the specs to see if it needs an external decoder, but I'm guessing it doesn't i.e. it does DSD native internally.

 

[manicm]

I want, I want!
£1624? Nah, no problem, going to sell my kidney.

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You may as well save up for a Marantz SACD 30n - cos it will cost the same by the time you add an external decoder/DAC.

Note the 30n natively decodes SACD/DSD internally.

 

[Al ears]

You may as well save up for a Marantz SACD 30n - cos it will cost the same by the time you add an external decoder/DAC.

Note the 30n natively decodes SACD/DSD internally.

They are nice, however as I said, if I was spending that much it would be cheaper to simply buy another Universal Disc player....
That way I get bluray audio ability as well, which is the one format I cannot rip to a digital file.