Telarc Reduces Prices for All SACD Product

27-Jun-02

Telarc International has announced a price reduction for all Telarc, Heads Up and Chesky SACD (Super Audio Compact Disc) product. The new Telarc pricing lowers the suggested retail price from $24.99 to $19.99 per disc. ""As industry leaders in audiophile and multichannel recording technology, we believe this important price reduction will dramatically improve the availability of multichannel recordings in today's marketplace,"" says Adrian Mills, director of Telarc's domestic and international sales. Mills cited the reduced retail pricing on new multichannel SACD players and systems, with players retailing as low as $200 and home theater ""in a box"" SACD systems as low as $500, as positive signs for the format's success. ""The number of SACD titles continues to increase monthly, as does the number of labels now creating these recordings,"" he states. ""With these significant developments, the multichannel recording format is poised to become the next breakthrough for the music industry."" All Telarc SACDs are hybrid discs, designed to be compatible with the millions of CD players in the market today. Hybrid SACDs actually contain two complete layers of music information. One layer contains the high-density DSD recording that can be played in the new generation of stereo and surround SACD players. The other layer is a conventional CD layer that can play on any CD player.