Who has actually listened to DVD audio?

I bought the Technics DVD-A10 (list $1200 paid $806 and has a $100 rebate). The unit is an upper mid fi sound quality. Not as good as my rotel transport/Adcom600... BUT: on a lot of old CD's where the material is almost unlistenable by today's standards... the "24 word bit re'whatever' really works wonders. The old badly recorded CDs have a much smoother sound and are very listenable again. (my pre is the Adcom750 and amp is Forte 4a Infinity IIa speakers,Audioquest Midnight) The video DVD is only "average for the price point of$1200. I'm happy I got it. The DVD-A part is like: "where's the beef?" with NO discs created expresly For the format that I.ve seen... Cannot comment on the DVD-A sound

Yeah and also the last issue of Hi-fi Choice Mag in the UK has one of their resident experts discovering a flaw in existing DVD-A discs(the few there is) apparantly and I haven't read the article in detail the conversion in the sampling rate has been done wrong so it is not "true" 24/96...doh. Ben

Wow, are they ever going to get digital to dound like good vinyl? there is so much more information available to the DVD format, you would think this would be a great format to do so since the technology is in place for the movies? I would love to have true analog sound in digital simplicity.

Having SACD in my system, my feeling is that it is getting closer to analog than I thought digital ever could get. It will probably not replace my vinyl, which still is warmer sounding, but it does have the ease and openness you get from vinyl. Someone said that SACD doesn't sound like analog, it sounds like the master tape, and that's probably right. Be careful, though, because you may not like what is on the master tape. As far as DVD-A, I haven't heard it yet, and I doubt that there will be players for a while which can take full advantage of that format, since the manufacturers are not letting a 24/96 signal out of the digital out on those players so you're going to be stuck with what will likely for the immediate future be mid-fi analog stages and power supplies. I imagine if it matures it will sound very good, as the 24/96 discs I have heard from Classic and Chesky in my system are stunningly good with a good 24/96 DAC, on the same playing field with SACD. I'd prefer more of the Classic and Chesky DADs, which can be played through a good DAC now, but I fear that DVD-A may have put an end to those discs.