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In the Thread: Meitner Audio - Ed Meitner's new company.

Post Subject: Meitner and sonyPosted by steverino on: 12/29/2012

I don't know Ed Meitner so this is not a defense of his association with SACD. However, as I mentioned some time ago I strongly suspect that it was Sony who demanded the one bit SACD and nixed the 4 bit. Sony in the late 90s was obsessed with copy protection (as were the DVD-A folks). Sony wanted a system that could not output a usable digital stream the way that CD did. Sony spokespeople at the time repeatedly made reference to the fact that SACD required no copy protection and also that the SACD digital stream would remain non exportable. Meitner didn't walk away from it as he should have in a perfect world. The whole business was absurd because as is well known almost all SACD files were regularly brought into PCM editors and then put back into SACD. SACD ended up sounding more unnatural than regular CD although it did have more realistic transient speed IMO. I only heard his EMM gear once but I didn't like the sound either FWIW.

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