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 ...

The term SACD is short for Super Audio Compact Disc. I realize that people often wonder whether such audiophile products are worth the additional expense, or are simply a marketing ploy. After ...

The quietude with which "B Minor Waltz (For Ellaine)" opens You Must Believe In Spring belies the hearty homage this release constitutes in recognition of the title's forty-fifth anniversary. As a ...

Let's just say I was having a bad month…or two. I had ordered a few DVD-A's for review and was told it would be 7-10 days because one was backordered. I was OK with that as I wasn't really in a rush ...

When one begins listening to classical music, one of the most logical composers to start with would have to be Ludwig van Beethoven. Even the most novice listener knows Beethoven's most famous four ...

The venerable CD is being pummeled on two fronts, the most prominent beating coming from the online digital download side — iTunes/iPod, et al. But less prominent and far more significant to packaged ...

Time Out is not only Dave Brubeck's signature recording, it is also his first (and best) foray into an exploration of time signatures themselves. By its very nature, the idiom of jazz has ventured ...

Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has been perfecting the art of pressing vinyl since 1977. Their SACDs and CDs are pretty special, too. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked as a ...

Only for Varèse owners: dCS’s new Transport delivers reference-level CD and SACD playback with ultra-low vibration and ACTUS bit-perfect transmission. The dCS Varèse Music System just got an ...

To jump, or not to jump? That is the question many Van Halen buffs will be asking themselves as they consider the prospect of the band’s original run of albums becoming available as pricey but very ...

Yamaha just announced the BD-S677 Blu-ray 3D and SACD player that also streams video, music, game content and images from mobile devices and the Internet. The all-in-one media player includes built-in ...