The main component of my home theater setup is a nice Denon 3808 receiver. However these days I like most others are watching more media from digital sources which puts a premium on the digital to analog conversion for speakers. As well as digital cable I watch more streaming media (video) from many sources starting with Netflix, Amazon etc etc.
I am finding that digital compressed signals being used the reconversion and eventual translation into the analog signals sent to speakers is becoming even more important in the eventual quality of the audio experieince. In essence I fnd that particularly spoken dialog is tending to sound more "clipped" to my ears rather than the old smoother pure analog signals. Probably as I age my ears are also far more aware of this!
So I am beginning to research for my next receiver which puts a premium on the digital to analog conversion and the end quality of audio. And yes the speaker set up I have is very decent quality though I guess I could always spend even more money on the center speaker for spoken audio. But I don't think that's my main problem. In terms of pure music Logitech sells the "transformer" to fill out the "gaps" in digital mp3s and converting to analog so I guess it's this kind of enhanced capability I am looking to be built into my next receiver.
Any suggestions where I should be looking?
Thanks.
I am finding that digital compressed signals being used the reconversion and eventual translation into the analog signals sent to speakers is becoming even more important in the eventual quality of the audio experieince. In essence I fnd that particularly spoken dialog is tending to sound more "clipped" to my ears rather than the old smoother pure analog signals. Probably as I age my ears are also far more aware of this!

So I am beginning to research for my next receiver which puts a premium on the digital to analog conversion and the end quality of audio. And yes the speaker set up I have is very decent quality though I guess I could always spend even more money on the center speaker for spoken audio. But I don't think that's my main problem. In terms of pure music Logitech sells the "transformer" to fill out the "gaps" in digital mp3s and converting to analog so I guess it's this kind of enhanced capability I am looking to be built into my next receiver.
Any suggestions where I should be looking?
Thanks.