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Originally Posted by Michael Reuben
You can use the 5.1 for all those formats. Whether you should is another matter. For those occasional discs where the best available soundtrack is regular DTS or DD, I prefer to use an S/PDIF connection, because my Lexicon has better digital processing than the BD10. But if I left it on the 5.1 analog connections, it would still work.
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Right. I find it only pays to use the 5.1 analogs when a BD disc offers one of the uncompressed audio formats.
I've tried listening to a 5.1 DD or DTS soundtrack over the 5.1s and it doesn't come close to when I play it back over the coaxial and have the Sony decode the audio.
That seems odd to me (that there would be such a dramatic difference--when the uncompressed tracks sound SO good over the analog 5.1s).
Does it logically follow then that if I upgraded my receiver and went HDMI that I would hear an improvement in the uncompressed tracks then by listening over the 5.1s (because the receiver might handle the decoding better than the player)? Not that there will be a receiver upgrade at any time in my near future...
Thanks!