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Old 15th January 2019, 14:37   #6645  |  Link
jd17
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Originally Posted by asarian View Post
With bitrates around 10x higher as regular DTS, the superiority of HD audio is a no-brainer, far as I'm concerned.
Nobody questions that lossless - in theory, or better measurably - is always better.
However, this is a forum that pretty much evolves around compression efficiency, i.e. saving bits where we don't see or hear it.

This is why I (and plenty others here too) take these lossless audio streams and compress them to 200-600kbit/s AAC or opus.

And while these codecs are obviously far superior to the ancient AC-3, you'd be surprised how good 640kbit/s Dolby Digital really is.
Accordingly, if the same master (and volume) is used, you would most likely fail in telling TrueHD apart from Dolby Digital, if you don't know which is playing.
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