Friday, June 25, 2010

SACD on its last legs?


Even though Telarc and Heads-Up International continue to record PURE DSD in multichannel and Stereo, Concord Music Group (their owners) are releasing these recordings only on Stereo CD and MP3.  This month marks ONE FULL YEAR since the last Telarc SACD Transmigration - Robert Spano, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra SACD-60673. Only the recording teams have heard the last years worth of new recordings in high resolution.





Hyperion is letting all of their SACDs go out of print and only releasing new recordings on CD and downloads.












Four years ago marked the end of the Mercury Living Presence and RCA Living Stereo SACD programs in addition all the Popular and Jazz SACDs from the Universal, RCA and Columbia/Sony labels began disappearing.

Now we are promised SHM-SACDs from Universal Japan at only THREE times the price of the original USA and European pressings. 

For some reason the desires of the high resolution crowd are of no interest to many recording companies nor do they seem to care about the loss of sales.  In short we don't seem matter to them.  That is unless they can sell SACDs at ungodly prices we cannot afford.  

With Telarc, the largest supporter of DSD recording GONE,  With more and more new DSD recordings being released only as CDs and more and more 44.1K and 48K PCM recordings being released as SACDs I feel SACD is doomed and will soon disappear.  My only hope is in high resolution downloads and perhaps Blu-Ray Audio.  

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