If you don't have a great sound system, is lossless audio a mostly worthless Blu-ray

[Cevolution]

Originally Posted by AlecEiffel

This thread makes me wish that I didn't live in an apartment and that my wife wasn't such a baby about things being "too loud".

I live with my fiancée in an apartment, this hasn't restricted me

There are quite a few members who live in apartments that have set up nice home theatres. There has also been quite a few discussions in other sub-forums of this site about managing it with neighbours.

[AlecEiffel]

Originally Posted by Cevolution

I live with my fiancée in an apartment, this hasn't restricted me

There are quite a few members who live in apartments that have set up nice home theatres. There has also been quite a few discussions in other sub-forums of this site about managing it with neighbours.

I'm not exaggerating when I say that the TV being just barely loud enough to hear "hurts (her) ears". I have to have subtitles on at all times otherwise I won't be able to hear the dialogue. No way a sound system would fly with her.

[MisterXDTV]

I think the thread title is too "extreme" but with a 5.1 setup, I think any difference between DTS at full 1.5 mb/s and Lossless is in most cases nearly impossible to hear.

DTS at that bit-rate is basically transparent to the source..