Can even a Novice hear differences in Sound Qualit

Point well taken, Mrtennis. Didn't mean to sound like all 100% of Digital Recordings are horrible. It is just that when you listen to this Diana Krall Multi-channel DVD-Audio in downmix mode, it will hit you like a brick wall, "So this is what has been missing from Digital for 30 years, even the 2-channel SACD/DVAudio"! Has anyone even tried this Disk, on a separate Universal Player, in Surround Sound or Downmix Mode? Friend of mine tried this Disk with the Pioneer going thru his Stereo System and Speakers(Downmix mode). Said that Diana Kralls voice sounded too forward and bloated. Don't quite get the same effect with RS-1's. He had to concede, however, that this Digital Downmix Recording has the most Harmonic Content of any Digital Recording that he has ever heard! The Harmonics seem to trail off into infinity, the Soundstage is twice as large than any Digital Recording than I have ever heard, even 2-Channel SACD! It kind of took me by surprise, it almost sounded like listening to a Record! You don't get that with any other Digital Recording that I am familiar with!
Small Labels certainly do a better job than the Mass Produced Recording Industry Labels. The problem is that it is the Big guys who own all of the Original Master Analog Recordings. If there is a certain Pop Music Artist that you like to listen to, it is the Huge Recording Industry that usually owns the rights to it. That is the main reason why you won't find most Popular Music being released on Audiophile Recordings. Someone is putting the big squeeze on! It is certainly not to benefit us!

Everyone has been harping on a plan. IMO it is nothing more than Red Meat for the so-called intellectual Nay-saying Dogs to feed on! They shoot Audiophiles, don't they? Here is the Plan, Bon-Apetite Adolph!
1. Try to establish if Downmixes of Multi-Channel SACD
or High Rez. DVD-Audio have the greater potential
for Sound Quality. Everyone could sample, everyone
could vote untill a concensus is formed.
2. Try to contact Recording Engineer that developed the
Format for everyones favorite type of Downmix. Share
Details of how this recording was made with other
Audiogon members. Inquire about any plans for future
similar Recordings.
3. Contact Manufacturing Company that released this
Recording. Send a petition showing interest in this
Company making more of the same type of Recordings,
utilizing this same format.

The bottom line, is that the Idea for the Original Recording Format was not only sold by a clever Recording Technician, it was also already bought by a Recording Company. They are just waiting to see if there is actually a Market Response. I am sure that part of the reason for the lack of decent Sound Quality, is that no-one even bothers to ask for it. It is sort of like the prettiest girl at the Prom who never gets asked out on a date, everyone thinks that they are not good enough for her. It is your choice to be one of those Idiots, I am asking you not to. You know, if everyone believes that they have no say in Sound Quality, then the illusion becomes reality. Everyone believes that they are not good enough. The door opens wide for the opportunity for one lucky Son-of-a-_____, to actually ask the Girl out. The rest of us Idiots are left wondering, what the Hell does she see in him? Lousy Sound Quality in the next Format doesn't have to be a self-fullfilling Prophecy! That is, unless, you prefer self-mutilation. It doesn't have to be that way! Who is going to be the first one, with enough courage, to step across the dance floor to ask the Girl out?

No-one! Then the Girl never gets asked out, and we all become part of the Idiots suffering under a self imposed Illusion! An opportunity for better Sound Quality, quickly slips away, because no-one will grasp it in time! This is the Audiophiles Plan for better Recorded Sound Quality, delude yourself into believing that a lesser Format will have adequate Sound Quality! And the next lesser Format after that, same thing? Why bother calling yourself an Audiophile, why not just call yourself a Beggarphile! I don't want to be an Audiophile anymore, because I don't want to be a self imposed Loser anymore! Audiophile- someone who spends an inordinate amount of money on Audio Gear, while looking for the cheapest, and lowest quality Format to play on it! An Oxymoron-heavy on the Moron! Someone who desperately seeks lower quality Formats, while obsessively chases ever Higher Quality Audio Gear to play it on! An Enigma, a Contradiction, a fool who enjoys and embraces futile attempts to improve on ever lower Quality Formats! I have decided, that these words will no longer pertain to me!

Yes, but that alone doesn't mean that they care enough or can afford to drop 10s of thousands of dollars into a SOTA audio system.

Lets be real, this stuff is a luxury, not a commodity. You have to be able to hear, then care, then pay.

Nice rant on behalf of audio buffs though!

Again with the Hardware, as a convenient distraction from the severe lack of Sound Quality in the Format! Lets be real, Mapman, dropping 10s of thousands of dollars on any System, in a vain attempt to make up for the severe lack of Sound Quality in the Format itself! Suprise that one finds yourself actually admiring how pretty, and expensive the System looks, as opossed to actually listening to it! Format drags your $10,000.00 System down to the point of sounding like garbage, to the point that you can't even stand listening to it! You only just show how expensive it looks to your friends, you don't dare play it for them! You can't stand listening to it yourself, you just use it for Eye Candy, or for Expensive bragging rights! Again, you harp on the Name, the Hardware, the Cost, all at the expense of even concidering the slightest increment in increase of Sound Quality in the Format itself. What is exactly your point, you want garbage for 10s of thousands, I can give you all of my garbage for half that, and even save you the expense of $5000.00. You don't drop 10s of thousands of dollars into a SOTA audio system, you don't drop 50s of thousands of dollars into a Digital System in a vain attempt to make up for that Formats shortcommings, you simply don't drop the ball on the Manufacturer spoon feeding you the next garbage Sounding Format! It is not the drop of 10s of thousands, but the drop in the Quality of the garbage that you are feeding this behemoth. No amount of money spent on the back end, will ever make up for the amount of garbage that is being force fed on the front end! You can go ahead and drop 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s, and it will only make the smallest increment of improvement, if any at all! If you are going to spend that much, why not just buy your own Record Company, for crying out loud, save yourself the money, and stand a half-wits chance of actually getting some better Sound Quality? So we spend so much on this stuff, just to look at, and not to listen to! Well, that is a helpful peice of information, when next deciding to drop 10s of thousands of dollars on a Luxury Audio System!