On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:00:29 -0800, willbill wrote
(in article ):
Steven Sullivan wrote:
Do you have bass management and delays
and speaker level settings on in you player
*and* your receiver?
i think you're missing the point
the question was/is: if digital audio
via toslink and/or HDMI cables is equal
to that via 6 RCA cables
my ears tell me that it is not, and
my hunch is that this is really true
that it is not
fwiw, i've pulled down some of the specs
on HDMI from www.wiki.org (.wikipedia.?)
and maybe this will get me to do a detailed
look through them. not sure if i've got
anything from wiki on toslink specs
bill
It doesn't matter. What you are "wondering" is if the method of transferring
a digital bit-stream, whether optically or via coaxial (HDMI) a few inches
(from the laser pickup in the player to the on-board surround-sound
processor) or several feet from the player to the surround decoder in your
Denon AVR can make a difference in sound quality. If the length of the signal
path had any effect on the bit-stream, what does that say about downloading
music from the internet where the path may be thousands of miles over fiber
optics and coax (and maybe even twisted pair)? The answer is, of course, NO.
If all the bits get to the decoder it doesn't matter how long the transfer
path is. Bits is bits. Whether the decoder is in the player and you are
routing the six channels of audio to your receiver, or if you are taking the
digital output from the player to the digital input of your receiver, the
digital signal is, ostensibly, the same in either case. The only difference
can be what the two surround decoders do to the decoded audio once it has
been processed.