audiophile/videophile Here To Stay discussion thread

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Originally Posted by Brian@BBY

i'm not convinced, i know on paper it's suppossed to be transparent...but for some reason the implimentation seems better on LPCM.

Trust me, it's probably in your imagination. When you look at the raw data, it is bit for bit identical upon decoding, so there is no reason TrueHD or DTS-HD MA should sound any different than LPCM. I've done my own testing on this with MLP and been present for DBTs with MLP and FLAC and there is no difference between lossless and PCM.

Of course, they could be mastered differently which could account for any differences one might be hearing. I have to admit that, as it stands right now, I have no way of comparing TrueHD and DTS-HD MA to LPCM because I have no means of decoding them until my Panasonic receives its firmware update.

All I can tell you is that, I work with various resolutions of LPCM all the way up to 192/24 practically on a daily basis in my own home studio and I author DVD-As using either LPCM or MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing), or a combination of the two and there is no difference in sound quality between the two that I have ever detected. Take from that whatever you will.