I don't understand what advantage being "exclusive" affords to either Octave or the artists. Do you think it allows you to charge a higher price? I doubt it. I think people are drawn to Octave by the quality of the recordings, and, of course, the artists you record. I seriously doubt that exclusivity is a factor in most people's (anyone's?) buying decision. How does the quantity of SACDs produced affect the unit and total price of your order? I am guessing that there are certain fixed cost associated with setting up an SACD production run. A larger run would spread these costs over more units making their impact on unit costs lower - basic economics. How do the costs of a larger initial run compare with the overall costs of a smaller initial run followed some time later by a second run with its own setup cost? - more basic economics. Now that you have gained some experience in your market niche, why not make an optimistic estimate of the market for an SACD and order accordingly rather than disappoint potential customers who were a little slow off the mark or are late discoverers of an album. Perhaps you should track the number of disappointed potential purchasers. For out-of-stock items ask "Would you purchase this item if it were in stock?" Most commercial albums are available for years, sometimes decades, after their initial release with newer listeners slowly discovering an item over time. I am sure there are many audiophiles out there, including myself, who are not interested in downloading music files but instead want the SACD. Please don't disappoint us.

@ArturdeSousaRocha

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I came here to say something similar. I don't understand the point of artificial scarcity other than feeding snobbism. I could understand it with vinyl where someone has to cut new lacquer. On the other hand with digital there are downloads so at least the music is available, if not the whole package.

@vintagemotorsalways1676

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I agree with most of what you said except for potential production costs; if the run is small enough they will probably just be burned not made directly from physical masters anyways, with digitally printed labels. Essentially the end result of this being that whether they are making them in house or having someone else do it the setup is not much more than dragging a few files around + normal processing that you have with any consumer product to put it into packaging (probably a standard CD jewel case with or without cover art which is a printed out slip-in and a shipping box, or envelope if they don't care about a certain percentage breaking in the post because of how cheap they are to make compared to the shipping cost for a box). I'm not going to link to any of them but there are various companies you can find with a quick search who will produce disks with art in cases for under $5 per unit as long as you order 25 or more with costs reducing greatly as quantities get closer to 1000. In summary, I think we can be reasonably confident that the vast majority of the costs associated with producing at Octave are the Artists, studio time, staff salaries, and various facility fees. As a matter of preference I often like to have files as I can do whatever I want with them including burning them to disk for personal use but I believe that there should always be the option to purchase a disk whether for collectability or convenience or any other reason one may wish to own physical media.

@carlstineman274

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@@vintagemotorsalways1676 What you say is no doubt true for ordinary CDs but according to Octave there is only one factory in the world, somewhere in Europe, that is still making SACDs. I don't know if manufacturing SACDs is more complicated than ordinary CDs but I am guessing that it is at least to some degree.

@vintagemotorsalways1676

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@@carlstineman274 They can be burnt to standard DVDs and read by any SACD player from the documentation I've seen.

Why on earth would you limit both the artist's ability, as well as, your own ability to reach a larger audience and make more income too.?

@jasonw6993

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Because they haven't thought about the reality of what will happen if they don't.