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I currently own the Panasonic bd-55 and I'm very happy with its performance and have been using the player's internal decoding to get the latest surround formats. I am using the analog inputs of my Arcam receiver and I'm not about to change it any time soon for one of the new receivers that decode all the latest. I find the Panasonic internal decoder lacking a little bit and to be honest I don't hear the difference in sound using the panasonic's decoder for Hd dts when compared to the Arcam's down-convertion to regular DTS of the same blu ray discs. I usually have to dial the volume on the receiver way too high, almost to the max (96) which in the case of the Arcam is 100 in order to match the arcam's decoding's levels at around 86. Besides the volume difference I can sometimes tell the difference in favor of the Panasonic's decorder on Hd surround but I feel the sound quality difference is insignificant
and I feel it shouldn't be as subtle as it is.
Is there a blu-ray player that betters the competition in high quality audio playback through its analog outputs? or maybe the decoder in the panasonic is too limited?
and I feel it shouldn't be as subtle as it is.
Is there a blu-ray player that betters the competition in high quality audio playback through its analog outputs? or maybe the decoder in the panasonic is too limited?