On 16 Mar 2008 17:39:42 GMT, "jeffc" <jeffc226@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Getting into home theater can be a pretty bewildering experience, with
all
>the techonology, and changes, occurring now. Let's narrow it down to
just
>the audio ****tion, and just from Blu-Ray.
>
>There are basically 3 "high end" audio formats - DTS-MA and TrueHD
(lossless
>compressed), and PCM (uncompressed). And there are basically 2 ways to
get
>the compressed ones - bitstreamed from your player and decoded in your
>receiver, or decoded in your player. Is one or the other of the formats
>better,
Controversial but you are not ofter given a choice as very, very few
discs have both. Consequently, if you are concerned about quality
audio, you should be able to handle both.
>and is decoding preferrable on the player or the reciever?
Controversial but, imho, it doesn't matter as long as your system can
do it.
>For the other formats, how much better are these? Is "core" DTS a lot
>better than regular Dolby 5.1? Is DTS-MA a lot better than core DTS? Or
>are these pretty subtle differences?
Subjective. You have to hear them for yourself. For music, imho, the
lossless formats, all three you list, are superior to any/all of the
lossy ones.
>In most cases there isn't much choice. A Blu-Ray might only have Dolby
and
>TrueHD. Or PCM and Dolby. Is there a benefit to favoring one format
over
>another when selecting your equipment, considering you usually can't have
>everything?
Why not?
Kal
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