Geoffcin,

You said that sound quality is recording driven and I certainly don't disagree. Thus far, I prefer the sound of what I've heard on SACD over that which I've heard on DVD-A, but as I said in my earlier post, I came to this conclussion by totally subjective means. As should be obvious by the bulk of my earlier post, much of the reason I prefer SACD has to do with the convenience of the format coupled with what I believe to be extraordinarily good sound. Make no mistake, I want one of these two formats to succeed and the other to go away, but at this point I prefer the total package that SACD has to offer.

Thanks for all of the technical information. I take it for granted that your preference is for DVD-A, but I'm curious to know how you feel about some of the "inconveniences" of that format which I identified in my post. Perhaps you don't see them as inconveniences at all? I'm curious to know what you think of the format as a whole - sonics aside. Care to elaborate?

Q