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Sorry for the outrageous title, but I wanted to attract attention. All over the Forum people in many threads are having audio problems derrived from the HDMI output. And going to great lenghts and expense to process the high quality audio only found on the HDMI output. Well...it just isn't necessary! The July/August "Home Entertainment" magazine describes some very carefully performed tests at the DD research lab and then the DTS sound studios. They utilized special listening environments and very revealing equipment. A computer generated in a double blind manner, movie audio tracks of different qualities for the informed listeners to audition. In the Dolby studio, there was no difference detectable by almost every listener, when the original movie tract, the lossless version on BDs, the moderately compressed version (DD Plus), and finally the core DD5.1 on the BD that outputs through optical out! Astonished I was. The same thing happened at DTS. The magazine staff could not find any significant audible difference among the tracks, in excellent conditions created to show these differences. What does this mean? It means that our ears may not be capable of resolving the differences in these codecs, and there may be money to be saved by sending video to the projector, and optical audio to the amplifiyer/receiver for decoding to EX, neo DTS DD Pl11x or other great processors.
We have been set free from the monster that HDMI created. A faulty technology to begin with, we became slaves to its powers because we coun't get the "good sound' with out it!
Please read the above sited report as the methodology and participants were first class. (the editor of "Home Entertainment" magazine has posted this link to the article: http://www.hemagazine.com/node/Dolby...compressed_PCM . He has also added more enlightening information in this thread. You comments are most welcome, Barry.
P. S. Title should read: "Dolby True HD", and DTS HD Master Audio are a hoax. I couldn't edit the title.
We have been set free from the monster that HDMI created. A faulty technology to begin with, we became slaves to its powers because we coun't get the "good sound' with out it!
Please read the above sited report as the methodology and participants were first class. (the editor of "Home Entertainment" magazine has posted this link to the article: http://www.hemagazine.com/node/Dolby...compressed_PCM . He has also added more enlightening information in this thread. You comments are most welcome, Barry.
P. S. Title should read: "Dolby True HD", and DTS HD Master Audio are a hoax. I couldn't edit the title.