Sony announced an October U.S. debut and a $5,000 price tag for the industry’s first Super Audio CD player, which will be accompanied at launch by 56 titles from three Sony Music and six independent ...

Many of us at Engadget -- being the audio geeks that we are -- have rooted for SACD to take off as a format ever since its release in 1999. So we're more than happy to see Sony release the entry level ...

Sony has announced a new high-end SACD player in Japan, the SCD-XA5400ES, catering to wealthy audiophiles still with a fondness for the technology. Based on a twin R-core transformer and D/A system – ...

Music lovers and hi-fi enthusiasts are all abuzz about the next generation compact disc. These new super high-quality discs and players have been a high-priced underground hit for nearly three years, ...

Sony Japan has released several new SACD/DVD players with integrated amplifiers, and a couple of them are the DVP-NS9100ES and the TA-DA9100ES. The DVP-NS9100ES is a SACD/DVD Audio/2x260W Multichannel ...

Sony announced a May 21 launch date in Japan of its first Super Audio CD player, a two-channel model priced at a suggested 500,000 yen ($4,115) and targeted to the audiophile market. The SCD-1, whose ...

Sony announced its first Super Audio CD-based car audio/video system centering on the new XAV-W1 in-car video head unit. It is also Sony’s first double din-sized visual entertainment system for the ...

One of the biggest perks of working at What Hi-Fi? is the opportunity to look and listen to all the latest hi-fi. But, among our team there’s one special category that always causes a particular buzz ...

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 ...