SACD, DVD-Audio and DualDisc recommendations

[Gremal]

Originally Posted by B.RAYBURN

I agree. My dear friend Gus who was a pioneer for Sony and the format, is still hard at it, and making strides everyday, but it just never took off. Too bad Sony didn't put the energy they put towards Blu-ray into the marketing of SACD, the world would be a different place for us audiophiles.

Is that Gus Skinas who does SACD authoring? He was very helpful in getting me info and photos for an article I did in Positive Feedback.

I believe Sony did put the effort into SACD. A tremendous amount of marketing and production efforts went into the format, and Sony also got the support of several other labels, including UMG, ABKCO and the Fantasy/Stax/OJC umbrella. There was significant consumer electronics support too, with Samsung, Pioneer and many other companies manufacturing SACD players. The audio/HT press was mostly very slow to pick up on the importance of the format with Positive Feedback being the only one that was fully applauding it from the start. Stereophile, Absolute Sound and the HT publications including Sound and Vision were very slow to catch on to the significance and initially really harmed adoption of the format. Sam Tellig was especially unhelpful. It's a real shame, but I believe Sony did everything within reason to make it work and consumers chose iPods instead of SACDs.