On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:38:56 -0800, Steven Sullivan wrote
(in article ):
Sonnova wrote:
On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:07:26 -0800, Steven Sullivan wrote
(in article ):
willbill wrote:
Steven Sullivan wrote:
Sonnova wrote:
DTS sounds superior to Dolby 5.1.
Not necessarily.
really?
perhaps you could provide one DVD
movie title as an example? 
How about instead you visit any AV/Home theater forum and see the endless
wars about this,
instead of cluttering up this one?
Since there are fewer than a dozen posts to this forum in any given day,
I'd
say that we can probably stand a little "cluttering".
I disagree. I prefer a high signal/noise over high post number for its own
sake.
The fact it you can visit any number of home theater/AVS forums and see
the PC/mac style 'war' being waged across a period of years...
DTS and DD versions on discs I own both sound good. When they sound
different, I can't know automatically if it's due to the format or to some
other
factor in the production and playback...or to my imagination.
And neither can you or willbill.
The fact is, to do a proper comparison, you'd have to find a movie where
you know that both DD and DTS tracks were mastered the same (same EQ), and
played back
the same (matched levels in all channels) ,so that you are only comparing
the
encoding. And do
that listening comparison blind.
That's a tall order!
Yes, it is....but it's the only way you're going to get a fair comparison
of the formats.
Get back to me when you'd done that. Until then, you can't necessarily
say
one sounds better
than the other, based on non-linear measures like bitrate, or
non-controlled
listening
comparisons.
Nobody (AFAICS) has the ability to know that except for the people who
actually produce the DVD and they tend to be so anonymous that nobody
(except
an industry insider) would have access to that information.
Indeed. So maybe it's best to ratchet back claims about the audible
superiority of one over the other?
Not at all. Most DTS discs also have Dolby 5.1 tracks on them. Most players
allow one to choose. In every case, *I* have found the DTS to sound superior.
Whether the improvement with DTS inherent in the system or just in the way
its applied, I don't know and have know way of knowing. All I can say is that
DTS sounds better than the same film in Dolby 5.1 and sounds better
consistently.