Thread: Blu-ray Audio now live

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Post by hiredfox March 21, 2014 (11 of 165)
Goodbye Everyone, it really has been nice knowing you whilst it lasted. Good luck to all.

Post by Kveld-Úlfr March 21, 2014 (12 of 165)
hiredfox said:

Goodbye Everyone, it really has been nice knowing you whilst it lasted. Good luck to all.

As you told me once : "don't be so despondent".

Post by canonical March 21, 2014 (13 of 165)
I'm also out. i.e. leaving

Have met many interesting people here ... and have always thoroughly enjoyed the repartee, ... the friendship of many, ... discovering lots of new recordings from others recommendations, ... and I have learned a lot.

Unfortunately, I don't believe for a moment this hoo-haa about seeking to promote hi-res formats more generally, because sadly (and almost unbelievably) this site has never really been about hi-res sound.

Quite the contrary:

* SA-CD.net purposefully excludes listing details about recording resolution: even download sites give this information, but here it is suppressed

* SA-CD.net bans frequency spectrum plots of recordings - how ridiculous is that?

* SA-CD.net even catalogs CD quality recordings re-issued by scam artists and sold as SACDs, when they are just CDs ... without even a caveat to warn people.

* SA-CD.net bans users of the site from trading with each other, or posting their want/spares lists, because there is no money in it.

Of course, it is also a super resource, and the forum was a fun place to chat with others with similar interests.

But, this is the last straw ... namely, listing material on a SACD site that is actually incompatible with the SACD format -- in the false belief that it will make more money -- because it shows that this site is not really about SACD, nor about promoting SACD ... but just about links to 'stuff' on Amazon, and making 5% on clicks. When you lose focus on what your purpose is, you lose the plot.

Cheers to all ... hope to see you again in the not too distant future

Canonical

Post by nucaleena March 21, 2014 (14 of 165)
hiredfox said:

Goodbye Everyone, it really has been nice knowing you whilst it lasted. Good luck to all.

Caninical said =me too.

Dear Foxy and Colin, - I quote zeus "What if you're not interested in Blu-ray Audio? Just set the Format selector to "Super Audio CD". Sounds pretty easy and has to be better than throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This will remain the premier SACD site on the web. I do hope you both reconsider.

Post by steviev March 21, 2014 (15 of 165)
hiredfox said:

Goodbye Everyone, it really has been nice knowing you whilst it lasted. Good luck to all.

Famous Last Words.

For anyone here bidding a fond but bittersweet farewell, upper incisors perched on moist and quivering lower lip, zeus should append a "LURKER" tag to their handle, analog to the "TROLL" slapped on amonra back in the day -- 'cause you know you can't give this place up!

I've already submitted about 10 pure-audio Blu-ray titles to this new and improved site, with more to come.

Post by Iain March 21, 2014 (16 of 165)
nucaleena said:

Dear Foxy and ..., - I quote zeus "What if you're not interested in Blu-ray Audio? Just set the Format selector to "Super Audio CD". Sounds pretty easy and has to be better than throwing the baby out with the bathwater. This will remain the premier SACD site on the web. I do hope you ... reconsider.

Indeed!

Post by Adrian Cue March 21, 2014 (17 of 165)
Congratulations Stephen. Count me in!

Post by hooperthom March 21, 2014 (18 of 165)
You have a choice, All format, SACD and/or Blu Ray. Don't know what the big deal is? Sure isn't enough to leave this wonderful site.

Post by Fitzcaraldo215 March 21, 2014 (19 of 165)
Bravo to Zeus for making this gutsy but forward thinking decision. Some will be bent out of shape by this, no doubt. But, nothing is being taken away from them and they can continue to use this great site's resources to follow only SACD if they choose. So, I see nothing but positives resulting from this. More music in hi Rez will be covered with advantages to most everyone here and possibly some new adherents.

Eventually the sites' name should be changed in concert with the wider coverage. But, all things in due course.

Post by deckerm March 21, 2014 (20 of 165)
Strange reaction from those leaving. Either you are drawn to this site becuase of the forum and the listing of titles, or you arent. Whether those titles are Hi REZ SACD or Blu Ray seems irrelevant to me - You can still talk about bit depth and sample rates and how that is meaningless to the overall recording quality and enjoyment of the product. I would rather have one site to go to for this information, than hit this one, a blu ray equivalent site, a DSD download site, etc.

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