I agree completely about DTS/AC3 vs lossless (and the very questionable hubris of those who confidently assert that they have 'golden ears' to hear the difference). Time and again, people *fail* in that ability, when tested properly.
But multichannel digital output (lossless or lossy) is as simple as having an HDMI output from your soundcard. It has not been prohibitively expensive for years.
On 2018-08-06 05:53, manxminx wrote:
I know it's sacrilegious to admit this, but I can't hear the difference between lossless and high bitrate lossy. I *think* I used to be able to in my younger days. Actually I'm sure a lot of people who insist they can hear a difference would fail an ABX blind test, as I'm sure I would have. Yes, I know that Lossless is better technically because you're not throwing away bits.
As with Daniel, I don't have a multichannel output from my computer to my audio equipment (although I'm hoping to resolve that issue come Christmas) just a Single Toslink cable (8 metres long for £10 and it's bit-perfect!) from my PC to Meridian processor, so DTS is perfect for me.
Until recently multi-channel digital outputs from computers has been prohibitively expensive. For example the Lynx AES16 soundcard. However, MiniDSP now have brought out their "Multichannel USB to AES-EBU or SPDIF interface" https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/u-dio8 it's become cheaper, but still around $300 or £300 which is a lot of money for me.
Anyway, good music played lossy is still good music!
Ali :)--
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