[SurroundSound] Re: WAV-DTS playback on HPTC

Thanks for all the suggestions...I tried them all and stilll nothing
(via my sp/dif).

I had a 3.5mm to RCA cable lying around and was able to get 2 channel
front sound to my receiver via 5.1 ext input. I just put in an order
to monoprice for 3 more of these cables. When they come in I will try
the analog route to my receiver to see if I can finally achieve 5.1
sound (for dts wav via foobar2000).

That brings me to another question...

I do not have a dedicated DAC. I rely on my receiver to do the
digital to analog conversion from my HTPC. It's an Arcam AVR200 and
seems to do a pretty good job whether I'm watching DTS/AC3 movies or 2
channel Flac (16 and 24 bit). If I go the analog connection to my
Arcam route, my sound card is obvious doing the digital to analog
conversion. How will this compare? Wouldn't my Acram's onboard DAC
be better than my sound card's DAC? I did a very quick A/B comparison
and I did notice a volume difference. I have to do a deeper
comparison of sonics and fidelity when I have the chance, but any
comments are welcome.

Once I get my monoprice cables I'll drop a not with (hopefully)
success.

Thanks again.

On Jul 26, 6:21 am, jolson <j.jol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Choker wrote:
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> " All sound is connected via s/pdif to my receiver. "
>
> ...which means there are no analogue cables, which means trying to get
> foobar to decode the DTS is totally the wrong solution for surround
> sound...
>
> On Jul 24, 12:46 pm, razi <rzie...@gmx.net> wrote:
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> > I can´t totally agree to jolson:
> > it depends on your soundcard and your AVR. If you have a good
> > soundcard and analog connectors at your AVR than you can connect it in
> > this way.
> > And in that case you have to use one of this foo_input_dts.dll.
>
> > Check out, in wich way you want to hear your music ...
>
> > razi

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