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Old 15th January 2019, 15:46   #6647  |  Link
nevcairiel
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Originally Posted by asarian View Post
But the difference between DTS-MA/TrueHD vs. AC3 is, well, unimaginably high.
Except on a technical level it really is not.

At least DTS has a "core" you can use for a direct comparison, since it has to be from the same master. If you were to decode both the core and the full HD stream to PCM and send that PCM to your "HD Amp", I'm positive that in most cases you wouldn't even be able to tell the difference. What these devices do is cheat you by playing with volume and EQ settings that play towards how people perceive audio. Just a slight bit more volume for HD, and most people already perceive it as "better", and there is more such tricks.

Or take a HD track and re-encode it as AC3, just to ensure its the same master, and then decode both back to PCM and send that to the Amp so the Amp does not know what the original format was.

There is a lot of trickery to try to sell you on "HD" stuff, because they had to sell you something, and in fact the audio quality difference have been minimal for years. If one really goes deep into it on a technical level, you'll eventually find that out. If you just blindly trust the Amp, then sure, HD probably sounds better to you, but not because its HD audio, but because the Amp cheats you.
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