Okay- I'll be the odd one out in this thread...
My own experience with DD and DTS is that while DD5.1 can at times lack definition and sound a bit hollow or muffled, DTS to my ears is a lot fuller sounding but kind of shrill and harsh. I don't care to listen to DTS for more than a few minutes as it makes my ears feel tired and kind of "sore" (for lack or a better decscription). I probably won't be able to explain this very well, but it's almost like something metallic is being carried along each sound, and it's noticeable both in sound effects and dialog. Whenever I've mentioned this on other forums people want to either blame my equipment (not the fanciest, but SPL'd properly) though I also hear this in theaters (though I am aware the home and theatrical DTS codecs are slightly different from what I've read, but I could be wrong on that). Or they want to get in a peeing contest over who has better hearing, or some just say I'm wrong or must be lying.
So most times I tend to sit these threads out, but the things that caught my attention was first Roogs mention of anomolies (the fact that they exist in both codecs doesn't surprise me at all) but then this:
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This makes no sense to me, as many of these soundtracks undoubtedly used 16-bit masters. It sounds like what you are hearing is a side-effect or distortion caused by DTS encoding, and judging this to be an improvement (as may be the case with perceived analogue "smoothness").
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What I'm wondering (not that anybody probably has an answer) is if the same "effect" or whatever it is that makes DTS sound really good (or more "analog" as people describe it, though in my case it's the reverse) to a lot of people the same thing that makes it difficult to me to listen to comfortably?
I'm not trying to be flamey or anything so don't get me wrong. I've just been trying to figure this out.