jfo wrote: > I have been checking out the AIX site. How are you playing the 5.1's? > Downloading and burning to DVD?
5 options I see: 1. Author to DVD - but you would need to convert the surround sound to Dolby Digital or DTS. This would be lossy and lose the high resolution benefits. 2. Author to DVD-A - will handle native 5.1 24/96 with lossless MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) compression. 3. Author to Blu-Ray - like #2 above but will handle multichannel 24/192+... Could get expensive depending on media costs! 4. Play off your computer's surround analogue outputs to surround receiver/preamp - sound quality compromised with most motherboard sound but one could buy a better sound card. 5. (Best solution) Play off computer HDMI output to a surround decoder/receiver. This is what I do. foobar and JRiver recognizes my Onkyo receiver over the HDMI cable and will play the multichannel audio natively. I haven't bothered to author DVD or DVD-A for years. Blu-Ray burning would be a waste since even a single layer disk can store 25GB; too much for just audio unless you have something like 10 surround albums you want on 1 disk. The only thing I have not tried is playing multichannel DSD through my receiver which I think is not a good solution since almost all audio processing like bass management happens in PCM so a conversion step from DSD -> PCM is almost assured. Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101201 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
