Hey Jerome, I have LOVE on CD and DVD-A, I'll send it to you if you want to cross listen.
Gene
Gene was kind enough to loan me his digital copy of Love, both on CD and DVD-A. I did not listen to them both in their entirety...but I did compare CD, DVD-A, and vinyl on the following tracks:
I am the Walrus
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Here Comes the Sun
Come Together
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A Day in the Life
The sonics on all three were very, very close to each other. The vinyl was a tad more open with a smidgen more air in the upper frequencies. The CD and DVD-A had a tiny bit more bottom end. I really cannot say that one categorically sounded better than another. I doubt that a critical listener would be able to find fault with any of them.
If you already own the vinyl version the only incentives to buy the digital is that you want a copy for the car or if you have a multichannel setup and want to hear it in 5.1. I'm strictly a two channel guy, and to listen to the DVD-A tracks on a level playing field I ripped the MLP multi-track mix using DVD-A Explorer and downmixed it to stereo, converting to FLAC in the process. I did not change the 24bit/96KHz sampling rate, just transcoded the audio from one lossless format to another since my audio player doesn't support direct playback of MLP.
--Jerome