I bought ~15 DVD-As and all of them sounded horrible. That's because most were made by taking old tapes from the 70s and making a DVD-A. Then in fall, 2006 I bought the Beatles "Love" DVD-A and it sounds great. Then I tried an Aix Records DVD-A. BINGO! The owner and chief engineer, Mark Waldrep, PhD in Music from UCLA told me his sound better than most, and is he ever right! They are just fantanstic. He records every performance live and uses hard drives to do it. No artificial reverb, no over-dubs, no heavy digital EQ. So now we see that the DVD-A lossless format CAN be fantastic, when done right.
www.aixrecords.com. Try Nitty Gritty Surround, Brand New Opry and Surf City Allstars I get Surround. Also Bach, Brandenburg Concerto. You'll be stunned by the fidelity! So, whole albums are back! I still like LPs best of all and have always thought CDs were utter and complete CRAP. They sound like hell. They are 44.1 kHz, 16 bit word length resolution. DVD-As are 96 kHz, 24 bit word length and far superior to CD. The Aix Records DVD-A are dual disks- DVD-A on one side and DTS 5.1 surround on the other, so they will play in any DVD player. Now, Dr. Waldrep is "migrating to servers" he says. He is starting
www.itrax.com summer, 2007. You will be able to download one track at a time. A new phenom. is the "home server". It has a huge harddrive, and you download movies and music into it. It sits in your media room. They are expensive still, $3,000 and up, but prices will fall. They will probably spell the end to disks for movies and music. Dr. Waldrep feels that both BlueRay and HD will fail, and they should due to the stupidity of the makers putting out competing formats. With a home server, you won't need either one. But try an Aix DVD-A. You will hear the true potential of your system for the first time ever. And if you buy one, you get his award winning sampler thrown in for free. About 18 tracks on it. If you buy over $100 worth, shipping is free.