How do you create an SACD?

[hashslingingslasher]

How do you create a Super Audio Compact Disc?

[solarfox]

You can't. No SACD blanks or burners currently exist.

[hirezsqwave]

How do you create a Super Audio Compact Disc?

In order to create an SACD, you need to record audio in the Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format using a Sonoma Digital Audio Workstation, or a Pyramix DAW that has DSD capability. Then, using Sonoma, or Pyramix, you can create the Cutting Master and send it to the SACD Authoring phase, accomplished by Sonic Studio's SACD Creator, upon which you create an AIT tape with the SACD Image on it in an incomplete DPP format that the replicator uses to create a Glass Master and then provide you with 10-20 Test Pressings with your commitment to replicate a minimum of 1500 discs. There is currently no way to burn a reference disc before committing to the expense and resources of creating the Glass Master, nor is there a way to play back the disc image created by SACD Author.

There ought to be a way to create a SACD Reference Listening Disc, but there is no such capability. I want the capability and hope that Philips/Sony people will listen to my request and create a product that will allow this.

[jman98]

hirezqwave - Nobody cares. The original thread is almost 8 years old!

Stop digging up old threads to comment on them.

You can buy SACD reference discs from a variety of sources but you will NEVER be able to make your own. Sony decided that if they never made consumer grade SACD hardware for PCs that the format could never be ripped and that has proven to be true. To people who will say "But I have copied many SACDs..." I am talking about the SACD layer, NOT the optional CD compatibility layer which can be ripped like any normal audio CD.

[hirezsqwave]

hirezqwave - Nobody cares. The original thread is almost 8 years old!

Stop digging up old threads to comment on them.

You can buy SACD reference discs from a variety of sources but you will NEVER be able to make your own. Sony decided that if they never made consumer grade SACD hardware for PCs that the format could never be ripped and that has proven to be true. To people who will say "But I have copied many SACDs..." I am talking about the SACD layer, NOT the optional CD compatibility layer which can be ripped like any normal audio CD.

This is not a dead thread as long as the SACD format is still there. I am a producer in the industry looking to improve the tools available in the SACD production environment. If a product were to come out that was along lines of my request I would take a serious look at it. Remember the days of the 1630 tapes? A producer had to use that medium (errors and all) in order to replicate Red Book CD Audio discs? The industry responded by making CD Audio recorders. Well, the idea of AIT tapes without verification is to me a stupid situation that needs fixing, and I ithink it is viable for us to talk about it in a forum that brings up these topics. There really should be a way for producers to make SACD-R discs for quality control purposes.