Disk Utility or iTunes for SACD ?

I've just bought quite an expensive audiophile CD:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002B250U/qid%3D1147715352/202-7482746 -3346218
I'd like to back it up now without any losses. In the Finder, it looks like a normal audio CD, so where's the additional information? Will I lose it if I back such music up as AIFF? Thus, should I copy audiophile CDs with Disk Utility or Toast?
Thanks a lot!
Peter

SACDs are usually multi-layered discs. They keep the 'normal' CD quality audio and the high def audio on separate layers. What the Finder is showing is the normal CD layer. The HD layer is read by the SACD player.
I don't know if you can copy the entire disc in a normal fashion using Toast or Disk Utility due to SACD copy protection.

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I installed Microsoft Office: Mac, and ever since then I have been having very strange errors. I'm pretty sure that has nothing to do with that but that was the most recent change.
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   2:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s2
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Message was edited by: Revearti

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And can I ever stop it, or will partition self destruct?
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If I stopped it, I wouldn't mind losing any one file (or a few), I just don't want to risk losing it all. The Drive is an archive of mostly media files. Many large files exist from 1.5GB to maybe 5GB, with few up to maybe 18 GB. Lots of small files too. All are rarely accessed and never edited (re-written) so I would guess there's not much cause for fragmentation.
Now to make matters worse, I use this computer for other things, and 3 days into the shrink, most of the computer froze. Mouse moves but nothing is clickable. Clock stopped updating. Can't bring up Force Quit. At day 5 I tried again and noticed the dock would appear and magnify, until it froze too. Drive still seems to be working with activity so I presume the shrink process is still alive. I don't know if it will survive to completion however. How bad would things be if I just powered it off????? Any other solution besides just wait for an unknown length of time?
Thank you for any help, and for not kicking me again while I'm down.
Mac Mini (Late 2009) 2.24Ghz, 4GB, 10.6.5

UPDATE: After more than three weeks of continuous disk activity, power to the external drive was accidentally turned off. After rebooting the Mac and connecting the drive, all data seemed to be there, and was readable, and the drive was writable. I attempted to back up the whole drive at once with a Finder copy (no OS on this drive) but it failed partway through. A group of files copied with zero data, which I presume happened at the failure point with an incomplete write operation. A piecemeal copy worked however, and all data was backed up intact I believe. My guess is that some corrupted file caused all the problems (never located though), but it could have been a hard drive issue too. If I learn more I'll do one more update. But the point is, that simply stopping this failed shrinking process midstream did NOT destroy the partition or volume info, FWIW, although everywhere I looked on the web this prospect appeared very gloomy. Bottom line, shrinking a partition of data without a backup is still a very risky prospect, and I will certainly never attempt it again. I consider myself extremely fortunate that I did not lose it all, or even any! OTOH, stopping a shrink is not guaranteed to have the dire consequences that one would suspect. More testing would be necessary.

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