SACD Hybrid Discs - Don't bother with these

[1kyle]

Hi all

I made a mistake today of buying 2 CD's labelled Hybrid (Plays both CD and SACD).

Now Ok on an SACD player these did sound absolutely fantastic but the CD gracenote recognition service couldn't get any CD information for these disks at all

Using Simple Burner also failed -- Even on HI-MD SP (on a 80 min MD) I got Media full.

These SACD discs are a NIGHTMARE -- unless you have to DO NOT BUY THEM ULESS YOU HAVE A SACD PLAYER. The CD downward compatability of these discs is very suspect.

Cheers

-K

[culp4684]

Hi all

I made a mistake today of buying 2 CD's labelled Hybrid (Plays both CD and SACD).

Now Ok on an SACD player these did sound absolutely fantastic but the CD gracenote recognition service couldn't get any CD information for these disks at all

Using Simple Burner also failed -- Even on HI-MD SP (on a 80 min MD) I got Media full.

These SACD discs are a NIGHTMARE -- unless you have to DO NOT BUY THEM ULESS YOU HAVE A SACD PLAYER. The CD downward compatability of these discs is very suspect.

Cheers

-K

Not sure which titles you bought, but I have all of Diana Krall's SACD albums, two Miles Davis ones, Pink Floyd's DSOTM and and a few others. All of these went into My Library on Sonicstage and were transferred to Hi-MD with no problem. FWIW, I have them saved at 352 kbps....

[Avrin]

I don't have a SACD player, but some of my discs are hybrid SACD/CD issues. No problems at all. They rip nicely and CDDB works perfectly. And they play fine on my CD and DVD players (the CD layer of course).

Edited February 21, 2008 by Avrin