First Hi! - newbie here
I've had a lot of experience in the field of A/V, Home Theatre and Computers but I have always been lacking in the technical side of audio specifications. The first thing I want to know is when using a PC for movies or general high quality digital audio what is the difference in having the PC decode the Audio and send an analogue signal to a speaker compared to sending the uncompressed audio stream to the amp and have the amp decode the sound. At the end of the day the signal has to be converted to analogue before it arrives to the speakers so does it matter if we don't get to see the special DTS-HD MA decoding light come up on the amp?
Perhaps am I misunderstanding what is going on and the PC is not correctly decoding the audio if the amplifier doesn't show the respective active decoding icon?
- I know some people seem to think they're not getting proper audio unless their amp is sufficiently illuminated.
Regards
I've had a lot of experience in the field of A/V, Home Theatre and Computers but I have always been lacking in the technical side of audio specifications. The first thing I want to know is when using a PC for movies or general high quality digital audio what is the difference in having the PC decode the Audio and send an analogue signal to a speaker compared to sending the uncompressed audio stream to the amp and have the amp decode the sound. At the end of the day the signal has to be converted to analogue before it arrives to the speakers so does it matter if we don't get to see the special DTS-HD MA decoding light come up on the amp?
Perhaps am I misunderstanding what is going on and the PC is not correctly decoding the audio if the amplifier doesn't show the respective active decoding icon?
- I know some people seem to think they're not getting proper audio unless their amp is sufficiently illuminated.
Regards