I watched/listened to Mark Waldrep, in its entirety. He speaks the truth. If it is not natively recorded with all its natural dynamic range.....the rest is all just repackaged, BIT BUCKETED UP bullmalarky, labeled high rez.
I've touted this for years on this site. Take your CD collection and/or bit for bit files and put together a System to best play PCM back to your EARS with involvement. Plain and simple~that is what I have done, for me in my Listening Room.
Pick your Illusion. I am glad to have spent the money on "massaging" the Involvement. Dealing with what is on the DISC in PCM. When only 15% of content is Native out there......you need to live in the world the way it is...not the way you want it to be.
However, I do like to put a NATIVE Prof Johnson/Reference Recordings on or Ray Kimber IsoMike or Real HD-Audio.com.....and say: "wow, if all could be like this"!
Oh, and Jon Atkinson has come to Minnesota several times and made some decent Native recordings of Cantus. I also, go see Cantus as a Live Reference.
http://www.cantussings.org/..................................but then, I have to come back to reality and deal with my 1500 CD's and produce them back in my Room with Involvement....so, I do. Obviously, through Decware, Steve's Output Stage on the ZDSD running PCM and Kimber Select.