Yamaha RX-V465 HDMI receiver. The important part is using the ATI
Radeon HD-5670 HDMI card that is certified by PowerDVD (Cyberlink)
between them, this way the player bypasses the Windows audio engine
and it can stream up to 8x24/96 channels directly to the speakers
smoothly and uninterrupted (set receiver to "direct" mode).
From my experience PowerDVD will protect most commercial uncompressed
content and downsample the audio before streaming as it is declared.
However PowerDVD will gladly play multi track Wavs so all my DVD-As
are converted accordingly. For DTS PowerDVD will play any title that
has been converted to a Nero disk image audio CD (.nrg) without down
sampling, so all my DTS/SACD2DTS titles are converted accordingly as
well. It is a bit of a hassle to prepare the content but well worth
it, hands down it is the best sound I can get from my system (foobar,
media player/classic.......).
When the choice is possible, I do not hear any difference if PowerDVD
is decompressing DTS and sending PCM or if it is outputting DTS and
the receiver is decompressing (pass through).
Lately I have also been enjoying the same sound and performance from
my new Xtreamer Pro into the same Yamaha receiver, in this case all
the content needs to be in multichannel flac form (still sorting out
some problems with quad flacs not playing from the rear channels,
hopefully I will nail it soon).
Can't help much with the video audio formats because I only use
Xtreamer/Pro for watching movies.
On Jul 6, 1:22 am, "Lokkerman" <phil.steep...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But this is were we get the differences between us folk that like analogue
> outs and those the like digital receivers.
>
>
>
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> From: surroundsound@googlegroups.com [mailto:surroundsound@googlegroups.com]
>
> On Behalf Of realafrica
> Sent: 05 July 2010 23:04
> To: SurroundSound
> Subject: [SurroundSound] Re: Power DVD 10 Ultra 3D
>
> Tab says, "If your going for the next step...."
> IMHO you might do well to get a better sound card: Creative is better than
> it used to be, X-Fi is a top of the range gaming card, but it's not serious
> for music.
> Not as good as M-Audio, RME, E-Mu and similar.
>
> On 5 July, 18:41, Tab Cursor <tabcur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I had a similar set up ... only with a Yamaha receiver. I think you
> > are indeed hearing 24/96 (not downsampled). If you're looking for the
> > next step, you can consider adding a processor that decodes DTS HD or
> > True HD, such as a NAD M15. You can then set P DVD 10 to "passthru"
> > the audio. The difference between analog out at 24/26 and "passthru"
> > is noticeably better. However, you can buy an entire new receiver with
> > these capabilities from Onkyo or Pioneer for a fraction of the price.
>
> > My opinion on this: the P DVD 10, Arcsoft TMT3, or Corel Win DVD all
> > do their own sound subsystems. They filter the audio before the X-FI
> > gets to do its thing. The best my X-FI ever sounded was when using
> > Creative's DVD Audio player in Windows XP (and later Vista).
> > Unfortunately, they don't make a version for Windows 7. In some ways,
> > KMP player sounds better for most video playback on an X-FI. It's
> > sound subsystem seems to let the X-FI do its thing better.
>
> > Hope this helps.
>
> > On Jul 5, 10:14 am, realafrica <paul.gam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > 1) As you play this test material in PDVD 10 check if your
> > > soundcard can report/show the resolution going thru it?
> > > 2) Output it to a DAC that shows the resolution.
>
> > > On 4 July, 19:36, polmuaddib <vladimirmalu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > Hello, everybody, I may be boring with the same subjects from time
> > > > to time, but I need some clarifying...
> > > > I installed the new PDVD 10 Ultra3D and I downloaded some Japanese
> > > > HD Reference disc. It contains a lot of video referencing material
> > > > and 3 audio tracks in LPCM 24/96 7.1, DolbyTrueHD 24/96 7.1 and
> > > > DTS HD Master 24/96 7.1 which PDVD plays. The interesting thing is
> > > > that in the information OSD in PDVD says that the output is also
> > > > 24/96 which was never the case in older versions. Any 24/96
> > > > material was reported
> > > > 16/48 in output. So, as everybody stated, PDVD was downsampling
> > > > the material.
> > > > My question is if the new version is also downsampling but falsely
> > > > reporting and how can I check it?
> > > > Also, can we make some NEWS section about software? Players,
> > > > plugins....
> > > > Thank you.
>
> > > > p.s. I am running Win7 ultimate, with creative 24/96 5.1 X-Fi and
> > > > analog outputs to AV reciever NAD T750.
>
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