I went with Winston to Japan a few years ago to record the Yamamoto Trio - "A Wonderful Trio". The studio, Audio Haus, is state of the art. We spent two days recording this album and with Winston trying to cover all bases, captured in 24/192 on a PT rig, 1/4" tape on an ATR 102, DXD on my Pyramix rig and DSD using a Tascam DV-RA1000HD using the EMM Labs ADC8 IV as the converter.
The drums and upright bass were segregated into iso rooms with visual of the pianist in the big room. I could easily walk into the rooms where the were and then walk into the control room and listen on the big monitors. All mic feeds were going into an SSL 9K with minimal EQ.
I could monitor on my headphones at the time for my DSD and DXD rigs.
To me, I felt the DXD was indistinguishable from the room sound, but preferred the DSD recording because it sounded like a Trio playing instead of 3 different people in 3 different rooms. The PCM just sounded a little unnatural to me. The PT recording was even worse. The tape we felt was a little dark, not enough sparkle.
I've done this experiment as many times as I can. Now with the new Horus, DSD as I remember is even better. I really wish we had the choice of tape machine and tape that day. I'm sure it would have been a completely different story!