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Originally Posted by WickyWoo
Lucas has a longstanding relationship with Dolby, he'll continue using their codecs just like Spielberg and DTS
What you're hearing is DTS being slightly louder, and they tend to cook people's mixes to emphasize LFE and other things that philes like. They did this all the time with DVD. Saving Private Ryan being a notorious example. DTS right now is doing all the HDMA encodes so far as I know. What you're hearing is not the quality of the codec, you're tasting their spiked drinks, or a personal bias carried over from DVD. Lossless is lossless.
Van Ling did both trilogies on DVD. Van is also responsible for all Jamese Cameron DVDs except Aliens (Charles de Lazurika as part of the Alien Quad), as well as Independendence Day.
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I would disagree slightly with the highlighted part. Properly decoded by the receiver the DTS HD-MA is not louder. In fact, on my set-up when I listen to a Dolby TrueHD signal, I am set at an ideal volume level of -15. When I put in a DTS HD-MA disk I find the ideal level to be -10 to -5.( -5 being louder on my receiver than -15) If anything the DTS HD-MA codec is forcing less volume into the mix than Dolby TrueHD.
I do however, notice slightly better separation in the speakers and a miniscule improvement on dialog and surrounds when using DTS HD-MA over Dolby TrueHD.
Really these are such small differences it really doesn't matter much. Both are lossless audio codecs. I think the biggest difference lies in what the director was going for, and how well that translates to my BD.
Hell, I've heard Dolby Digital EX soundtracks that blew my socks off.