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In Reply to: Re: On a highly visible title. posted by John Kotches on April 28, 2003 at 18:42:18:
Sleeping with the enemy?This still is NOT SOMETHING THAT IS INHERENT TO THE SACD FORMAT.
IT HAS TO DO WITH A PLASTIC USED AT ONE PRESSING PLANT.
Try this sometime. Look at DVDs and hybrid SACDs. The glue does not go to the center, and there is a gap. This is the "BONDING" you talked about.
These cracks are forming where there is none of this glue. So how can it have anything to do with BONDING DIFFERENCES?
It has to do with the CHOICE OF PLASTICS BY ONE PRESSING PLANT.
"CRACKS" ARE NOT INHERENT TO THE SACD FORMAT.
But as you said, things are backwards here. And what you say becomes truth simply because your DVD-A THUGS are poised in the shadows ready to hit any "auslanders" with a Louisville Slugger because they don't talk the talk and walk the walk.
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Michi,You're throwing a lot of broad commentary here that is unsupported and (at best) highly misguided.
I buy recordings on whatever hi-rez option is available, although my format of preference is decidedly DVD-Audio.
That's my pragmatic approach to improving the sonics of my music collection.
With the splitting of the forums, it was kind of inevitable though, wasn't it?So, If I get told "You're on THAT side! Get out of here!", or pick up that notion, I get defensive.
The problem is, you've got to be completely ANTI SACD around here to be able to criticise any *specific* shortcoming in DVD-A, even if it is minutia.
It's this bi-partisan, all or nothing mentality that I see cast on *me* when I come in here that puts me on the defensive when someone says something like "SACDs CRACK." ...
That's like saying "Audio equipment gets hot!" ... That's right. Some of it does.
the boards were split because of the constant harping between "camps". I don't go onto the hi-rez board and bitch about anti-DVD-A comments, its not worth the trouble. But if I did, I would expect that the usual suspects would jump all over me. You basically have to view the forum you are in with respect. I post on the hi-way and I try to be very careful what I post. It is not my job to try and stamp out any anti-DVD-A comments. It's bound to happen so let it be. Take the analogy that you have walked into a Republican convention as a Democrat and started slagging everyone that said anything anti-democrat. How do you think you'll be received? Its not worth the energy. So try to chill and realize that there will be anti-SACD comments here and pro-DVD-A commentary. That's how its structured. It will not change.
...Because as far as this stuff goes, I'm not the equivalent of a "democrat".If I were a moderate at a Republican convention, I'd likely say, "Well, I like this this and this, but I don't agree wiith this."
It's you guys who labeled me "democrat", "outsider", "SACD-dedicate."
That isn't the truth. But it's a "You're completely for us, or completely against us!" mentality.
Saying that *all* SACDs crack is just dumb. If someone said, perhaps, on Hirez, that *all* DVD-A's don't have dedicated stereo, that'd be dumb, too.
They don't all have stereo, only some do. Am I dumb ?
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