I just recently read an article where someone went to the Dolby labs and couldn't tell the difference between the 2. I currently have a Yamaha HTR-6050 which sounds great and does Dolby Digital and DTS. How much better is Dolbytruehd? Is it worth the upgrade?

I just recently read an article where someone went to the Dolby labs and couldn't tell the difference between the 2. I currently have a Yamaha HTR-6050 which sounds great and does Dolby Digital and DTS. How much better is Dolbytruehd? Is it worth the upgrade?It depends on who you ask. Unfortunately, there are no rigorous studies on the subject. The article you read may be the best available information at the moment.

DD 5.1 and DTS are encoded at the maximum bitrates allowed by the specs on Blu-ray, which means they are less compressed than the versions you hear on DVD. They sound great. I personally find the max bitrate legacy codecs rival lossless on my equipment in my room. But, as always, ymmv.

And I prefer the lossless codecs over anything else. :D

There must be dozens of threads on this subject scattered throughout the AVS forum. Do we really need another? Try a search on the subject.

It's a very subjective matter since there really is no way to do an actual legit comparison, but it is doubtful that you would be able to tell the difference between the HBR legacy codecs and lossless on BluRay.

IMHO of course. ;)

Dolby digital just sounds to compress,
But,if u have good speakers and switch over to dts you probably could hear a huge different. :D But for me i prefer lossless codecs as well :p

Dolby digital just sounds to compress,
But,if u have good speakers and switch over to dts you probably could hear a huge different. :D

Hi,

I wouldn't be so sure about what you hear in an unscientific sighted test. ;)

Here's a very amusing story described by Dennis Erskine, a well-respected professional home theater designer and AVS moderator.

There are two camps and always will be ... real or imagined. I tested this early on with a recording that (1) was recorded specifically for multi-channel; and, (2) both the DD and DTS version were from the same master, not remixed, levels not changed, etc.

I set the surround processor to display DTS when DD was playing and it displayed DD when DTS was playing. After the listening session 100% of those professing DTS was superior, still agreed DTS was superior. 100% of those who thought DD was superior still were in the DD camp at the end of the session.

Oh well.

Larry