FWIW, I’ll post this link to my previous comparison of the two. The preview doesn’t show the Vivaldi/MSB comparison; that starts in the second paragraph.
I probably like DSD overall, though I’ve heard some SACDs that made me cringe, and I am not sure I can go as far to say that DSD is generally superior to PCM. There is some excellent DXD out there, and that’s just PCM. Still, I appear to be settling in on DSD upsampling on the Vivaldi. I like some DXD upsampling, and some stuff sounds better not upsampled, but my sense of timing and sensitivity to upsampling artifacts does not seem to be as acute as Pete’s.
Both the Vivaldi and MSB have SOTA SQ…