[SurroundSound] Re: Converting Multichannel files to DTS?

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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