Home Theater Forum - View Single Post - Would appreciate a little sound (card) advice

Chet_F · 09-10-2005, 08:09 PM

"can I play a dtsCD or dtsLD on my LDP, pipe that into the box, record it as a .WAV, burn that to a CD, put that in my LDP again, run it to my reciever, and get dts?"

I don't know a great deal about home theater equip, or converting to another type of media. That said I don't think you can get that very last part, i.e. 'and get dts'. I would think once you convert it to a .WAV file, you are essentially downgrading the audio to 2 channel 16 bit 44kHhz stereo. You can't take that sound and convert it back to a DTS format and get what you originally started with, i.e. the DTS sound from the DVD or LD at it's original bitrate.

Here's something a little closer:
http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=180-970

But this is used to convert analog sound to digital. I don't think that's going to help you.

You'll love this nest link. This guy built his own digital to analog converter:
http://sound.westhost.com/project85.htm

That brings about another question....what type of connection do you have for your SPDIF?

I think I found what you need, not positive though, take a look:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_u...2496-main.html

Hope that helps.

09-10-2005, 08:09 PM	#4 of 13
Chet_F Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Local Time: 09:14 PM Local Date: 12-04-2008 Posts: 794	"can I play a dtsCD or dtsLD on my LDP, pipe that into the box, record it as a .WAV, burn that to a CD, put that in my LDP again, run it to my reciever, and get dts?" I don't know a great deal about home theater equip, or converting to another type of media. That said I don't think you can get that very last part, i.e. 'and get dts'. I would think once you convert it to a .WAV file, you are essentially downgrading the audio to 2 channel 16 bit 44kHhz stereo. You can't take that sound and convert it back to a DTS format and get what you originally started with, i.e. the DTS sound from the DVD or LD at it's original bitrate. Here's something a little closer: http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=180-970 But this is used to convert analog sound to digital. I don't think that's going to help you. You'll love this nest link. This guy built his own digital to analog converter: http://sound.westhost.com/project85.htm That brings about another question....what type of connection do you have for your SPDIF? I think I found what you need, not positive though, take a look: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_u...2496-main.html Hope that helps. \"If you’re lucky, people like something you do early and something you do just before you drop dead. That’s as many pats on the back as you should expect.\" - Warren Zevon 1993, R.I.P.