DVD-A on Krell and Trivista and DV-50 question


I went to audition players yesterday and was surprised to see both the Krell and Trivista play DVD-A disks that I brought. I haven't seen much written up about the players' ability to play DVD-A disks. For the Trivista, how does the audio play? I assume its read as SACD, but plays through the CD path. Sounded pretty good (through probably not at the highest SACD resolution). Can these players play the high-resolution 2 channel layers?
Was going to get a DV-50, but the Trivista sounded better to me (I brought a headphone amp and Etys for auditioning).

For those with DV-50s, does the DV-50 have some kind of bass management? Me and my friend had a problem hearing the bass from the DV-50 (on SACD and CD). We were wondering if the unit had bass routed to a subwoofer.
mcgino

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The Tri-Vista plays DVD-A? News to me and I own one....I'll have to look into that. Yes, it plays high-rez 2 channel, it's a 2 channel only unit.
The only comment about DVD-A in the manual is that you can connect a DVD-A source to the digital input and use the internal DAC. Perhaps a call to Kervo in Canada at 1.905.428.2800 would answer these questions.

"The Tri-vista had a sweetness to it though. Maybe it was me, but it seemed more "musical"/"magical"... I don't know, maybe it was the glowing feet... but the bass seemed to have a better shape and I seemed to get a better sense of the instruments and their position in the sound field."

My thoughts exactly, even with redbook.