Educate me about DSD

"..an un-natural.....noise floor..."

I’m not so sure I’ve Ever experienced that.....best up to today is in the middle of N.D., camped in the middle of nowhere, quiet enough you could hear your heart beat..

Next level down would be ’the one yet to be experienced’, which I’m in no hurry to experience, and ’noise’ would become irrelevant.

...more interested in the Art of Noise v. ’noise’ per se, frankly.. ;)

Always people mention the limited amount of SACDS/DSD files, but they make up the majority of my listening.

Rolling Stones Complete Catalogue, just about

Steely Dan Complete Catalogue, just about

Genesis

Peter Gabriel

Cream

Eric Clapton

Bob Dylan

Pink Floyd

Simon & Garfunkel

Yes

The Buggles

TRex

The Who

Warren Zevon

The Eagles

etc.

Spend your time finding new well-recorded music instead. Nothing wrong with the red book format done right.

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Blue Coast has FREE DSD samples (at various rates) and even PCM that you can compare in your own system to see what you think. I like the idea of DSD becoming more prevalent in a few years, but right now, mixing it is a bear and most labels aren’t ready to move to it from PCM after all their investment and having a source of engineers well versed in PCM, but not so many who know how to work with DSD.

Originally DSD was thought of as a great ARCHIVAL medium, not one necessarily for consumer listening, but with the better technology available today, some have thought to push its use.

Octave Records (PS Audio) and Blue Coast are two of those among others.

Paul McGowan (PS Audio) is an evangelist for it.

Another thing about SACD/DSD was the fact that it offers multichannel audio. If used properly this could add a lot to the music experience in theory, but it seemed most studios didn't have a clue what to do with them other than add some "ambience" noise or sound effects.  I'm a 2-channel guy myself so that attribute never appealed all that much to me. 

+1@gosta, I love everything @lordmelton listed (not sure about the Buggles though:) )  And I have many DSD titles by most of them.  Yet I am continually blown away by new standard resolution recordings like LIberty by Anette Askvik, Birds by Dominique Fils-Aime, So Handsome Hello by Woodkid etc.  So fun to explore and find new gems.  Still love the DSD stuff though not everything sounds amazing.