Is Anybody Ever Going To Ask About Dts-hd Ma For The Ps3???

[crackinhedz]

Originally Posted by kitkat99

DTS-MA and DDTrueHD does sound more dynamic than the LPCM. What you really want is the rcvr to do all the decoding. Im sorry that people went and bought non hdmi 1.3rcvrs but that is really what you need. yes they cost more, but only with HDMI 1.3, not 1.2 on the old rcvrs that can handle lpcm only will not get 8discrete channels,

I like DTS-MA much more than the other 2 formats, i think it sound better.ALso i am so concerened im getting the proper sound , i also like to see it displaying the proper format on my rcvr, not just multichnl.

also bitstreaming a lossless codec from the player is better than sending uncompressed lpcm from the player because of possible judder

TrueHD can indeed be better than PCM, if the former is decoded in the AVR. But briefly, if you decode PCM in the player, then you have to send it over long cables, slave to video clock on HDMI. Then the signal travels from that port through HDMI transceiver, buffer, etc. eventually to the DAC. Every step along the way then is an opportunity for jitter to be induced/increased.

In case of sending over the TrueHD bitstream to AVR, it can remain as "data" immune to any jitter until the last moment before the DAC. Of course, one can do serious damage in this short link just the same . But assuming good design, compressed streams can in theory sound better to folks who can hear jitter artifacts..."

...care to take a wild guess where Dolby TrueHD and Dts-HD Master come from?

(heres a hint...they are 'compressed' versions of ---?)