[SurroundSound] Re: Surround Advice Sought

As Mark says SPDIF is only good for stereo 24/96 lossless.
It can cope with the lossy dts in 24/96 multichannel, but not lossless
MLP or LPCM.
Therefore if it plays at all, your disc will be downgraded to what
SPDIF can cope with.

On Mar 2, 2:48 pm, Marktherob2005 <marktherob2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some DVD-A are only 2 Channel Stereo. Maybe your source is the
> problem. Just a thought...
>
> Mark
>
> On Mar 1, 10:43 pm, Bob Russell <rar...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for your interest!
> > DTS and DVDV work perfectly.  Reciever displays "DTS" or "DD Pro logic
> > II".  DVD-A 96/24 shows "96K Stereo"
>
> > On 3/1/2011 6:12 PM, mircea raibulet wrote:
>
> > > If I were in your shoes,I would try to stream [using foobar] a dtscd
> > > after that a dts dvd,after that a quad dvd-a[96/24]....you got the ideea?
> > > M
>
> > > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 10:47 PM, RARBAR <rarbar6...@gmail.com
> > > <mailto:rarbar6...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> > >     Just loaded a "new" laptop from Dell with Home theater software to
> > >     play most formats.  This new laptop is a DELL XPS M1710.  It comes
> > >     with SPDIF output.  I notice one important difference between my
> > >     previous desktop home theater system and this laptop.  The major
> > >     difference is playing DVD-A iso using either Foobar or Shaplayer which
> > >     worked really well with my analog outputs from my sound card in the
> > >     desktop to my receiver/amplifier.  4.0 or 5.1 formats sounded great.
> > >     Now with the laptop running Foobar or Shaplayer with SPDIF output to
> > >     the same reciever/amp the reciever produces stereo only. The front
> > >     panel of the receiver LCD lights up with "96K Stereo"
>
> > >     So, what is causing surround not to be played?  Is the receiver
> > >     shifting automatically to 96K stereo because it cant handle 24 bit
> > >     96000hz 6 channel input?  or Is the laptop computer SPDIF hardware not
> > >     capable of creating 24 bit 96000hz 6 channel output.  Or Is it the
> > >     SPDIF standard/technology itself incapable of supporting 4,5,or 6
> > >     channel digital signals.  (Some posts I have read here say yes others
> > >     say no.)
>
> > >     If it is a problem with my reciever/amp does anyone know an
> > >     inexpensive one I  could purchase that can play DVD-A plus other
> > >     formats via SPDIF.
>
> > >     Could a possible solution be an external USB surround card with analog
> > >     outputs?
>
> > >     Any advice is greatly appreciated.
>
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