Very Nooby Question regarding Sound Formats

[Canada]

Originally Posted by BIslander

Of course, audibility is all that matters. Most of the extra data does not produce sound that humans can hear.

Are you kidding my set up are B&W 683 fronts are pretty good and it makes a huge difference, I can't imagine what Brian Sturgeon or Gremal think with their B&W's 802 fronts.

[BIslander]

You're not the first to ask that in this thread. Clearly, I am not kidding. At some point, more data doesn't correlate to better audio. Perhaps, one of you guys will post something to support your belief, something a little more substantive than saying you personally hear a difference and another poster on this forum with good speakers probably agrees with you.

[slimdude]

Originally Posted by PaniqL

Hello,

I Know this is a very basic question but i am yet to find my answer.
With all the different sound formats going around

How do you select what format you want to use?
I know that not all Blu's have a 7.1 Mix and will be matrixed, but how do you select?

Is it on the Disc Menu?
Or is it when you run the Speaker setup? like adding 7 channels you can choose PLIIz or normal 7.1?
Or is it in the receiver's Menu?

Thanks
- Callum

Once your speakers are connected properly, your blu-ray player and A/V receiver audio set-up, must be set to Bitstream to output lossless audio. to play a lossless soundtrack on blu-ray, select the DTS-HD MA, or Dolby True HD in the audio menu of the blu-ray. Or you can change the soundtrack with the audio button on your remote control.

[BIslander]

Originally Posted by slimdude

Once your speakers are connected properly, your blu-ray player and A/V receiver audio set-up, must be set to Bitstream to output lossless audio. to play a lossless soundtrack on blu-ray, select the DTS-HD MA, or Dolby True HD in the audio menu of the blu-ray. Or you can change the soundtrack with the audio button on your remote control.

You can set the player to either bitstream or PCM. With bitstream, the AVR does the decoding. With PCM, the player does it. The result is the same either way, except as noted in post #6.

[Canada]

Originally Posted by BIslander

You're not the first to ask that in this thread. Clearly, I am not kidding. At some point, more data doesn't correlate to better audio. Perhaps, one of you guys will post something to support your belief, something a little more substantive than saying you personally hear a difference and another poster on this forum with good speakers probably agrees with you.

Read some of the professional reviews

Superman Returns Dolby Digital Audio

Superman Returns True HD LPCM Audio

Dark Knight It is imperitive to go into the menu immediately when the movie starts and select the TrueHD track.

Speed Racer

[BIslander]

When I asked for "something a little more substantive", I didn't mean the personal opinions of a couple of online movie reviewers, who may simply share your belief that lossless has to be better.

The first two links are to the same review of Superman Returns. The reviewer says the re-release was remixed for the TrueHD encode. If so, and I don't know whether that is true or not, then the two soundtracks are not the same. Or, maybe the reviewer simply doesn't realize that remixing and re-encoding are not interchangeable.

The Dark Knight link simply says the disc defaults to the lossy encode.

And the Speed Racer review laments the lack of a lossless encode, which the reviewer believes would have to be better.

Not much substance in any of those links.

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