2011-07-02, 04:45
bluray Wrote:I can tell the different in non-TrueHD vs. TrueHD sounds and non-DTS-HD vs. DTS-HD sounds in my 7.1 home theater system. I wish that you live close by, I can let you hear it for yourself.
If there is no different between HD vs. non-hd audio codec's, I don't think that thousand of Boxee, Extreamer, etc owners returned their media players due to issue with HD audio playback. They fight with Boxee, Xtreamer, etc to death to have HD audio playback correctly. Most of them selected these media player for its HD audio playback capability...!
I don't think you addressed my point. Until you have a professional calibrate your system between codecs and then have somebody play hd and non-hd codecs without either of you knowing which is which, you simply cannot say for certain that you can tell the difference. I know this, because THAT IS WHAT THE PROFESSIONALS DO. And those self-same professionals have said, over and over, that a 1.5mbps DTS stream sounds, even to the best, most well trained human ears, exactly like the master audio.
The fact that you can hear a difference says one of two things. Either 1, you are experiencing a placebo effect, or 2, your speaker system is not calibrated correctly. Do you have an audio system worth approximately 30k that was professionally installed and calibrated? If, and only if, you do, then it's the placebo effect. If you don't, then the problem still isn't the codec. It's the speakers and the decoder.