This post will tell you its history, technology as well as playback hardware.

As you know, there are different logic formats of CD, such asCD-ROMandCD-RW.

And this post fromMiniToolis mainly talking about the SACD (Super Audio CD).

Super Audio Compact Disc

Now lets get some information about SACD.

Overview of SACD

Definition

What is SACD?

It is short for Super Audio Compact Disc, which is a read-onlyoptical discformat for audio storage.

The first appearance of SACD was in 1999.

The density of the disc is the same as that of theDVD.

Sony manufactured in-car SACD players.

SACD players are not allowed to provide output with unencrypted DSD streams.

The first two generations of Sonys PlayStation 3 game console could read SACD discs.

Starting from the third generation (launched in October 2007), SACD playback was deleted.

However, all PlayStation 3 models will play DSD Disc formats.

This feature was removed in subsequent versions.

The Mac OS X music software Audirvana also supports playing SACD disc images.

Besides, you’re able to know SACDs definition, history, technology as well as playback hardware.