On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:34:20 -0700, Kalman Rubinson wrote
(in article <frkscc0ea@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>):
> 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.
That's true. OTOH, if the lossless formats result in performance on-par
with
Redbook CD, then, other than the ability to pack a better quality
soundtrack
(than available with Dolby 5.1 or DTS compressed) to a movie on a
High-Definition disc, it has little application to audio-only programs
(except maybe to fit all nine Beethoven symphonies or the entire Frank
Sinatra discography on one disc). I find it interesting that Sony failed
to
include DSD as a sup****ted audio format. I suspect that they realize that
Blu-Ray has no real application as an audio-only medium.
>> 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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