Bill Evans Trio: Waltz for Debbie
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DSD
And a little trivia about this album, "Debby" in the composition's title refers to Evans's niece, Debby Evans.
How much better is the DSD version? I've only ever heard the Riverside CD.
I don't have the original Riverside CD, but I do have a copy of the K2 Super Coding 20 bit Remaster
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Compared to the DSD, the K2 sounds kind of flat from an imaging perspective. It is as if it was a picture being projected on a screen and everything only existed within the plane of that screen. With the DSD there is a definite sense of soundstage depth that is missing from the CD. In addition to a more precise placement of the instruments, both in width and depth, the DSD also gave me a better sense of the space an air between them whereas with the CD the unoccupied space was ore dead and dark.
In total, while the CD sounded like a very good facsimile of the performance, the DSD just sounded more like real music.
All that said the CD is still quite good and the level of SQ in it us such that it definitely would not get in the way of sitting there and enjoying the music. But the DSDD is just s bit better around the audiophile edges.
