SACD Vs. DVD-Audio Compared

It's clear that high definition formats have more capacity to support high quality signals. But which format should you align yourself with? Digit-Life compares the two, you decide.

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“It is almost impossible to see the daylight through the clouds of format wars between SACD and DVD-Audio. There are too many opinions to clearly find the solution – which format to choose in comparison with CD-DA and LP.

Statistics are not favorable to the new high definition formats today. According to RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in 2003 only 0.4 million DVD-Audio disks were sold, 1.3 million – SACD, 1.5 million – LP, and 745.9 million – CD. CD sales reached the peak level in 2000 and are presently experiencing a steep decline. Perhaps the public interest in CD is lowering down because of the phenomenal steady growth of the DVD-Video format – 369.6 million including music DVD in 2003.”

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