I just started to mess around with DSD and downloaded a couple digitized albums from RuTracker. Kill 'Em All and …Nothing Like The Sun. I have heard may versions of both but they have never sounded better. I was really surprised, it was very noticeable.
I just jumped into this rabbit hole of DSD last week. I have a few SACD’s and was looking for an affordable player that could play them through my DAC. The more I read the more I understood the difficulty of doing so without converting the signal to PCM. I decided to download a couple of DSD sample files and configured Foobar2000 to play them as DSD256 direct to my Topping D90SE. I’m way too early on in this to have a solid opinion, but my initial reaction is there may be something to this idea of DSD being superior to PCM with the downside being way less music is recorded in Native DSD. Secondly I am now looking at getting an RME ADI DAC to start recording my own guitar playing as DSD and I’ll start sharing those files. Just need to save up the couple of grand to afford it lol.
I like dsd because many were released with multichannel mixes.
Beyond that, ignoring the care that was put into mastering dsd releases, the format just eats gobs of space and doesnt really sound much better than formats like CDDA to me.