While I'm sure there is some truth to that, I think at that point
you're getting into the touchy-feely audiophile realm. I would
venture a guess that in a double blind test, most people couldn't
tell the difference between the two decoders. Especially if you're
just dealing with crap-level consumer gear (Sony, Kenwood, Pioneer,
etc) and crap-level speakers (Bose, JBL, Infinity, etc), with crap-
level room acoustics.
If you're concerned about "truer sound" the SPDIF connection is about
the last and most obvious of your concerns.
On Apr 6, 2007, at 12:32 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
There's at least one more reason for it. If you're doing spdif, you're
probably handing off the raw digital audio stream to a device that
has a much
better dolby digital decoder (your amp) than a sound card, so
you'll get
truer sound. Its an absolute must for me for HDTV and DVD viewing.
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