I've discovered better sound in Games!

[neckedness]

I've had my PS3 and Onkyo 605 for awhile and been playing PS3 games with the PS3 sound setting to HDMI-Automatic setup which selects all the sound options. Today I changed the sound setting to Manual and deselected all the Linear options and just left Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1 on. Then I played Mirror's Edge Demo and was blown away by the sound quality difference! With this setting, on the Onkyo for all the PS3 games, the display said DTS or DD. I also tried LBP and SuperStarDust. The game sounds do improve!

If all the sound options were selected, then the display on the Onkyo would just say MultiChannel and I thought this was a good setting for everything. Well apparently not.

With just the DD5.1 and DTS on, my MP3 will play in surround too. DVD movies sound the same since the display always say either DD or DTS even with Linear selected at the PS3 sound option. Of course Bitstream is set here.

I'm going to keep it set like this from now on since I play more games and listen to music more than playing a Bluray movie. Yeah, when playing a Bluray movie, I'd have to turn back all the Linear options for uncompressed sound.

But dangit, I never knew this, all this time. You guys should try it...and mirror's edge sound amazing!

So this explains why I always thought xbox 360 games sounded better.

Sorry if yall knew this already but, wow, just wow.