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No one bothers to answer ?
[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
[quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote]
No.[/quote][/spoiler]
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Przepraszam
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Sep 2012 15:52 Post subject: |
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well arn't mp3, youtube videos in recorder in 2.1 channel? no way to get that in 5.1 unless you emulate it in your software?
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Saner
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Sep 2012 15:53 Post subject: |
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I use one from my htpc and get full dolby digital, so akong as your amp supports it I don't see why not.
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ? |
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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Saner
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Sep 2012 15:55 Post subject: |
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I use one from my htpc and get full dolby digital, so along as your amp and source support it I don'tsee why not.
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I saw things like that in here and in other "woman problems" topics so...... Am I the only one that thinks some authorities needs to be alerted about Saner and him possibly being a rapist and/or kidnapper ? |
Saner is not being serious. Unless its the subject of Santa!
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| Posted: Fri, 28th Sep 2012 15:59 Post subject: |
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First question, What besides movies and games do you expect to be in 5.1?
As for other things...
The short version: You can think of Dolby Digital and DTS (Core) as essentially just compressed (and often highly compressed at that) PCM audio streams. They are not of higher quality, so they won't make anything sound better.
A lengthier answer follows
Dolby Digital Live just encodes your PCM streams into Dolby Digital on the fly... it is not by it self better - it uses the PCM audio (which is what you are getting now) as a source, and even if it was a one to one conversion (which it's not - it compresses the audio, in a way it's similar to WAV vs MP3) it wouldn't be better than the source. Technically it's actually worse, but whether or not you would notice the difference I can't tell you
There is also a DTS equivalent, which should technically provide a higher quality encode in comparison to DDL. Truthfully, I don't have any personal experience with either, so I can't tell how good or bad either of them are, but they still can't be better than PCM.
TOSLINK is actually why DDL exists - SPDIF connections don't support more than 2 channels in PCM, so when you have a multi-channel PCM source (games are a primary example) DDL can encode it into Dolby Digital 5.1 and send it that way. Whatever you have on the other end needs to be capable of playing back Dolby Digital audio though (Or DTS if that is what you go with). It's not doing it because it's better, but because it can't work the other way - without it, you are limited to stereo.
All in all, PCM streams should provide the best quality, since they are basically untouched. It won't sound worse than Dolby or DTS, unless your receiver (or whatever you have) is doing some additional post-processing when it gets a DTS/Dolby stream. In that case, it won't technically be better anyway though, but might sound different enough for you to like it more
The advantage of the optical connection is that you only have one cable (instead of 6), which is certainly more convenient, and that it's "digital". If you have cables and hardware that is decent enough, the digital part is not much of an advantage though and you still need to consider the limitations I have mentioned above.
The best possible connection is HDMI though - it supports all the things!
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Sep 2012 17:52 Post subject: |
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There is basically no difference between FLAC and MP3 in quality, at least I cannot perceive it.
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Sep 2012 18:25 Post subject: |
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Not when you have z906'es no, but if you use good headphones or a HiFi-speakerset the difference is very noticeable.
Yes, yes I'm back.
Somewhat.
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Sep 2012 18:58 Post subject: |
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| fisk wrote: | | Not when you have z906'es no, but if you use good headphones or a HiFi-speakerset the difference is very noticeable. |
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Sep 2012 21:23 Post subject: |
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Another issue is that FLAC music plays in 2.1.
Why ?
[spoiler][quote="SteamDRM"]i've bought mohw :derp: / FPS of the year! [/quote]
[quote="SteamDRM"][quote="b0se"]BLACK OPS GOTY[/quote]
No.[/quote][/spoiler]
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| Posted: Sat, 29th Sep 2012 21:24 Post subject: |
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Music isn't 5.1 recorded.
If you have a stereo receiver you can use a 7ch stereo mode that plays out of all your speakers equally.
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