I think the leap in quality from Red-book to SACD isn't enough to make SACD a market success like the leap from LP to CD was...
I prefer LPs (and how!), but CD offered convenience, no cracks&pops, no getting up to flip sides, portability etc. SACD offers the same as CD only slightly better - if one has a system worth its name... How many people does that make, market-wise? 0,01% perhaps?
The rest is now perfectly happy with mp3s burned on CDs or the compressed Dolby Digital tracks. The industry shot itself in the p... by heavily promoting "easy" formats and their "excellent sound quality" and at the same time asking us to renew our whole rig for high-end formats with 40kHz+ bandwidth requirements... iPods are selling like hotcakes because that's where the market is - portable, computer-connected, "fun" and mostly rippable/burnable: make your own playlist, change your playlist, make multiple playlists etc. I believe "static" formats are on their way out, whatever their sound quality.
CD and 48k/SBM DAT is as far as I personally will go for "modern" sound.
And, after the original LP, the reissued LP, the cassette, the original CD, the reissue CD, the remastered CD, the 24bit remastsered CD (uh? on a 16Bit player?), the Mo-Fi reissue LP, I will definitely NOT buy the SACD copy of Dark Side of the Moon. Enough is enough :screwy: