[willbill]

Steven Sullivan wrote:

willbill wrote:

my DVD player = $230 OPPO DV-981HD
my AVR = $800 Denon AVR-2307CI

if it is due to a decoder quality difference,
i hardly expected it to favor the OPPO;
meaning that it raised a couple of other
possibilities including that the audio data
transmitted via either toslink or HDMI may
not be as "good" as that via 6 RCA

again, if you are applying processing to the
signal in the player for one output, and in the
AVR for another, then unless the processing is the
same, the final sound may be different.

processing in the player is the same
for both listening comparisons

the primary diff is the decoder used,
secondarily the audio cables used,
with a third small diff being the
subwoffer boost

bill