Thanks to nativeDSD, I think you will find DXD is the predominant master file format. Sorry for the long post, but the key point from their site is in bold below.
About a month ago I was looking to buy this album and found it was only available in DSD format, as I was not even aware that my system could play DSD files. Turns out it can receive DSD64.
Not knowing anything about DSD files, I read what nativeDSD had to say and almost everything I’ve said above came directly from their pages, to which I posted the link. I also spoke to the Chief Engineer of Devialet.
With regard to master files being DXD, nativeDSD say:
Most new DSD recordings released today are made with multiple microphones that are digitally recorded, then level balanced and mixed in DXD during post production, yielding a DXD edited master. That’s then followed by converting back to DSD for consumer delivery.
You can find that here, about two-thirds of the way down.
So, unless I have read this incorrectly, the edited master file is DXD, but may be converted to DSD without actually changing the sound. This implies the DSD format is only used for consumer/marketing reasons, because DXD can be handled by most good DACs as it is just high rate PCM.
The DSD DAC can handle DXD (as per their website, I posted the link earlier) and as Ted confirmed, the limiting factor is the cable type.
I referred to Ted’s comment in 2017 about the limitations of the Bridge, which is here:
I was aware of the limitations because they were the reason I did not buy it.
The good news is I found a 16/44 PCM version of the desired music here. It is excellent.
I have no idea how SACD was produced when it started as I never used it. I only became aware of DSD when I bought a Linn system in 2009 and started buying their downloads. They were using DSD and I must assume they were editing in DXD, which they continued to do until 2015.
24/192 PCM has been their standard since then.
I clicked through a dozen titles on nativeDSD and DXD was the predominant original format.
I think all these different formats give rise to a lot of confusion and the first post I responded to was based on the assumption that more data = better sound. The reality is that more data is likely to result in hardware and cable issues that cannot be solved by software updates and certainly more cost.
At the end of the day, I bought the music at a cost of £9.75, whereas had I bought the highest data format DSD512 it would have cost me £35 and I would have had to set Innuos to reduce it to DSD64 to play it.