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 ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. In 1999, music consumption was shifting in a new direction. As home internet connections got faster, users discovered improvements that had ...

Lately, CDs have been enjoying a resurgence in popularity, but that’s not surprising as the medium is capable of excellent sound, even though it’s more than 40 years old. As well as the standard CDs, ...

Shanling’s SCD3.3 treats SACD like it never died—true DSD output, a 212-resistor R2R DAC, tube stage, and enough engineering muscle to shame most “modern” players. Let’s be honest: outside the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Technology journalist specializing in audio, computing and Apple Macs. Ever since Marantz was acquired by Sounds United, the audio ...

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 ...

Getz/Gilberto gets a stunning SACD upgrade via Jamie Howarth’s Plangent Process and Bernie Grundman’s analog-to-DSD cut. Hear this jazz classic reissue like never before. Some readers here may recall ...

This past summer, Marantz revealed its new flagship “Series 10” range of hi-fi components. It consisted of three products: the Model 10 integrated amplifier, the SACD 10 SACD/CD player and the Link ...

ark Levinson, the archguru of ultra hi-fi musical reproduction, has stopped recording music on conventional CDs. He no longer even listens to them. And, while his name still is burnished on some of ...

It has been some time since I wrote the controversial, but much needed article titled, "DVD Audio & SACD The Royal Scam". I did not write this article to bash new technologies, nor to be a ...