The $4000 system lets you hear everything and hear it well. A $2000-ish system starts giving you the sort of fidelity where you can tell good recordings from less good recordings and starts to really reveal the nuances in soundtracks. The $800-$1000 range of the Onkyo 605 + Athena Micra6 package gets you the beginnings of genuinely good sound that a $400-$500 HTiB simply cannot deliver. It works out rather conveniently that it's basically a doubling of system price for each noticable improvement in performance.
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Going for clearly better sound would mean doubling the system price again to something in the range of $7000-$10,000 and that starts to become too much for a lot of people, even in $800-$1000 stages. I call that $4000 system the "sweet spot" for audio value because the difference from a $2000 system to a $4000 system is very large and obvious, but if you buy in stages (around $500 at a time), it is still affordable. In that thread, we discussed how that is really the sort of price range where sound enters the sort of "high end" and it's very easy to tell TrueHD apart from DD and to never mistake that $4000 system for a system that cost around $2100. I wrote another thread here where I detail putting together a $4000 sound system in $500 pieces at a time. It's when you make the jump to a higher-end sound system that the difference really becomes apparent and obvious. A HTiB isn't really going to sound much better. Something like the Onkyo 605 + Athena Micra6 speakers package that I recommend so often will just be able to demonstrate the difference.
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You do, of course, need a sound sound system that can actually demonstrate this difference though. Everything is just clearer, more distinct and sounds more "real". Overall, it's just like taking a bit of cotton out of your ears. Voices are often clearer, imaging and soundstage are almost always improved, bass usually has better deliniation, dynamics are definitely increased. More to the point of your question, I know that Dolby Digital seems pretty good already, but once you hear uncompressed PCM or lossless audio (TrueHD or DTS-HD:Master Audio), you realize just how much is being "lost" in the Dolby Digital compression. Had a big discussion several months back about all the new audio formats in this thread. They use some compression but supposedly not at the expensive of audio quality, you are not supposed to be able to hear the difference between their tracks and an uncompressed track. Dolby True HD and DTS-HD MA are considered lossless. Basically uncompressed is just that, you get the whole thing just as it was recorded. When it comes to High Resolution Audio you can get that through Dolby True HD, DTS-HD MA, or uncompressed PCM. The difference between Dolby Digital and either of the other two formats is dramatic and easy to hear, like I said, cleaner, fuller, much much more dynamic.īetween Dolby TrueHD and uncompressed PCM they are pretty similar although I think uncompressed is a bit better but it's hard to tell because it always plays a bit louder also. So if it takes 1024 kilobits to equal 1 Kilobyte, and 1024 Kilobytes to equal 1 Megabyte, well, you get the idea, we are talking WAY more audio data being delivered.
#DOLBY DIGITAL VS DOLBY TRUEHD PS3#
To break it down for you here is what happens when I pop the blu-ray 300 into my PS3 and bring up its data screen:ġ) When I select Dolby Digital 5.1 it shows that it is outputting 640 kbps to my audio receiver - so that's 640 kbps of audio information for all 5.1 channels of audio.Ģ) When I select Dolby TrueHD it outputs around 2.0 Mbps (it fluctuates depending on what's going on in the movie).ģ) When I select uncompressed PCM it jumps to around 4.5 Mbps for the same scene.Įdit: Just to clarify I believe kbps stands for kilobits per second.
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High Resolution Audio (or High Bit Rate Audio), as Dolby TrueHD is just one of several ways to listen to high resolution audio. The basic answer to your question is that it sound much cleaner, fuller, and more dynamic.Īlso, it's not really Dolby Digital vs.