So if you want to hear the SACD layer, you’ll need a brand new SACD player… and that’s where the costs start heading skyward!Īccordingly, SACD never really took off before it got side-swiped entirely by the download and streaming revolution that basically killed off all physical audio and video formats.
A completely separate layer contains the SACD goodness: it’s this extra layer that you really want to hear, given that you paid a lot more for an SACD than you would have done for an old-style CD -but it’s this SACD layer which standard CD players cannot read. That’s because SACDs contain separate physical layers, one of which contains standard CD audio, which any normal CD player can read. As an aside, you usually can play an SACD on a standard CD player, but you’ll only hear standard CD audio quality when doing so. Unfortunately, those changes from the original CD standard made disks using the new format incompatible with normal CD players, requiring the purchase of new (expensive!) hi-fi kit to experience them to their full potential. It was intended to be the ‘next generation’ audio format, given its higher fidelity and longer playing times than standard CDs. Super Audio CD was introduced in 1999 (i.e., about 20 years after the original, ‘ordinary’, CD).
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