Bela Fleck SACD

[riverrat]

The copy of the SACD version of Bela Fleck's fantastic session "Drive" that I got from casacaiman skipped on the SACD layer. It was not like a normal skipping CD, but seemed to skip from section to section of the track without dropouts.

Has anyone else experienced similar problems with this or any other dual-layer hybrid SACD?

As an aside, casacaiman was a pain in the *ss to deal with regarding my return. I got a polite email saying to visit their site and use their return procedure, which didn't work, then waited many days for an email response to a query about this, telling me that they would send a return mailer, which never came after two weeks, then finally they just sent a refund after I left negative feedback on eBay (first neg feedback I've ever left).

When coupled with my previous experience with them regarding unfilled orders of CDs they list but do not stock and apparently cannot get, I think I have finally learned my lesson about casacaiman.com.

[Claude]

There are quite frequent reports on Audio Asylum of users having problems with certain SACDs on certain players. Very often the replacement discs don't improve it, as it seems to be an incompatibility.