I found an interesting article by Mojo Audio.They seem to be saying true DSD recordings don't exist.
Here is an informative thread from Bruce's forum about DSD editing software as well:
http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?18413-DSD-Editing-software
I only mention that because the existence of pure DSD recordings for the end-user is really a matter of the technology used to record and particularly master. That said, I do agree with the author that there are many recordings out there that are packaged as DSD for the end user but started life as PCM. And the other way around too (I think Bruce, for example, may have done some Mercury reissues as high res PCM but the masters were native DSD, for example).
But as other users have intimated, DSD is arguably over-hyped in some people's mindset and there is a lot of consumer jumping onto that DSD bandwagon. You only have to look at the higher end portable music players to see that DSD capability is a headline marketing tool. But after I read about ABX tests that Emil Berliner studios did between PCM and DSD (no statistical difference), I more or less lost interest in the format as a consumer option (at least for me). That was several years ago though. Today, I might have plumbed for DSD myself if I were starting from scratch, not because I think it is better but because it has garnered such widespread acceptance amongst serious music listeners who want something better than CD quality that there are a huge number of titles to choose from.
I was only reading Chad Kassam's latest magazine this morning and his DSD download sales are way out of proportion (very high) to the number of DSD titles he actually has available. Even just 5 or 6 years ago if you wanted high quality in the classical genre your best choice was vinyl. Now your best choice is DSD64 and DSD128.
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