What am I listening to, it can't be Digital?

I have two dozen or so DVD Audio disks, and the quality has been either hit or miss. The best sound I've heard is DAD version of Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley. It's not MLP encoded DVD Audio, but straight 24 bit PCM recording. Maybe that's why it sounds better? Also the disk player had a lot to do with the sound quality in my experience. On my Unidisk SACD sounds gorgeous, but DVD Audio is just good.

Dear Jylee,
I have several SACD Disc's, even one from Mobil Fidelity. My impression is that SACD only sounds slightly better than CD, my impression alone. Decided to try a DVD-Audio Disc, and the Diana Krall Disc just blew me away! Not Music wise, sounds pretty good, but the Recording Quality sounds like it was from another Planet. Tvad is correct that it is my first DVD-Audio Disc. If it is 2-Channel I am hearing, and I think it is, it is the closest that I have ever heard a Silver Disc come to an Analog Recording. Buconerol17 is correct, I do have a Turntable, and I have listened to many Analog Recordings. The LP version probably does sound allot better, it is just that this particular DVD-Audio Disc sounds so unusually close to Analog that it stands head, and shoulders above CD/SACD! It is like a night and day comparison! I am rather new to the DVD-Audio/SACD Formats, not even sure what DAD or MLP encoded DVD Audio is.
If the same Recording, and Mastering Process could be applied to other DVD-Audio Discs as this one, then you would have an Alternate Format that wouldn't be just slightly better than CD. I think that you would have something that really stands out as a high quality Format. The impression that I am getting from everyone here, is that not all DVD-Audio/SACD Disc's sound the same, in fact there is night and day difference from one Disc to another! That is a damn shame, because most of my freinds are unimpressed by what they call, the mediocre sound quality of DVD-Audio/SACD. They are the one's who decided not to buy into either one of these Formats, now I am finding out that the ability to make DVD-Audio sound miles ahead of CD has always existed! It was just not implemented with a majority of DVD-Audio/SACD Disc's, an attempt to skimp out on sound quality and scam the Public into buying into the name of a New Format! The American Public was wiser, and the backlash was brutal! It just seems to me that someone has cut off their nose to spite their face, when it comes to manufacturing DVD-Audio/SACD! Because of this, DVD-Audio, and SACD are on their way out! Greed wins, (or loses in this case) over Sound Quality! What a waste! This will probably be the last Silver Disk that sounds so well, that will be available for me to purchase! What a waste!