Momentum behind the Super Audio CD format accelerated with the announcement that the world’s largest music company — Universal Music Group — plans to sell its first Super Audio CD discs in the next ...

When you look at the excitement that Dolby Digital and dts 5.1-channel soundtracks from DVDs can generate played over a good home theater system, it’s not surprising that Sony/Philips and the DVD ...

Original Publish Date: 12/23/01 - Much of the content in this article has been addressed via hardware, but we keep it live for archival purposes. Software selection however is still the big issue ...

Ten years ago SACD and DVD-Audio were hailed as the next big things. Everyone thought multichannel music would soon replace stereo, but stereo's still here and 5.1 music is nearly extinct. Ex-movie ...

Recently I bought an Audiotrak Prodigy 7.1 soundcard for my HTPC. This is a soundcard based on the Via Envy24HT "Vinyl Audio" controller and a Wolfson WM8770 CODEC supporting 96/24 A/D converters with ...

SACD and DVD-A pinned their futures to the hope that there was a market for 5.1-channel music, and flopped. Now Blu-ray is making an even feebler attempt. Steve Guttenberg Former contributor Ex-movie ...

Sony has been dealing with LCDs for years. Liquid crystal displays abound in their phones, PDAs, computers and TVs. Now Sony is embracing another kind of LCD: lowest common denominator. Instead of ...

The appeal to consumers was supposed to be better and more lifelike sound quality. The appeal to music companies was supposed to be a new digital format that consumers couldn't Napster-ize or cheaply ...

Looking for that final CD player or transport that can play every format including DSD and SACD? The new PS Audio PerfectWave SACD transport is shipping. Contrary to what you might have read online, ...

A high-resolution audio format approved by the DVD Forum in 1999. Designed as an optical disc format with higher-quality sound than a CD, DVD-Audio never caught on. Neither did SACD, a competing ...