DTS or DOLBY DIGITAL on LOVE ?

Well I listened to the CD. Then I listened to the 5:1 surround in DTS.
Then Dolby Digital.
Now, from what I read about DTS & DOLBY is that the DTS should have
superior sound as the rear channels are not compressed.
And I do Love the DTS.
But I enjoy the Dolby Digital setting a wee bit more. I find on my
system I get more bass on the DOLBY DIGITAL setting.
Anyone else notice this ?

terra...

I only listened to the Dolby, erroneously thinking that it was basically
the same as DTS. I have subsequently found that I was quite wrong about
that and the DTS is the best of the two formats (twice the bandwidth).
SO I have to listen now to the better source (DTS). I liked the surround
with Dolby, but I did have a problem hearing some of the rear speaker
action, so this might be the ticket.

Kevin Bracey...

I've not compared them, but it's notable that the DD is at its maximum
possible rate, while the DTS is at its minimum. Most DTS music releases are
at the higher 1500kbps rate. DTS does need more data for a given quality.

So on this disc at least, the DTS may struggle to be convincingly better than

terra...

I am a novice in this, so I may be totally ass backwards, but what I read
last night was that this dvd has:

2.0 channel 48kHz 16-bit PCM stereo
5.1 channel 448kbps Dolby Digital
5.1 channel 754kbps DTS

DanKaye...

And: 5.1 channel 96Khz 24bit 6 channel DVD-Audio.

Given those figures the DTS would clearly be the way to go. Rspecially if
it's true that Dolby compresses the rear channels more.

DanKaye...

I cannot as yet access the DTS and DD, to hear for myself, since I
have a dvd-audio player seemingly set to play DVD-A automatically, but
I read about surround on wikipedia and from what I understand, whether
DD is better than DTS will depend on how it was encoded. In other
words, it depends on the disc or on the audio track if it's a film at

Rich Clark...

Which is something you can change in its menu (to tell the player to access
the DVD-V layer -- which is where the DD/DTS tracks are -- on DVD-A discs),
but I don't know why you'd want to in this case. You're already hearing the
best audio on the disc.

the theater.

So sometimes DD could be better than the DTS. In this particular case
I don't know for sure. But don't the above figures mean that the DTS
would be less compressed than the DD?

the Dolby.

abe slaney...

I haven't picked up the DVD yet because I'm not sure if it will
work...I"ve got a DVD 5.1 system in my office but it's not hooked up to

terra...

Never fear...the dvd comes WITH a cd redbook version, it wil play on
anything.

I"ve got a DVD 5.1 system in my office but it's not hooked up

a monitor - I just used it as a (stereo) sound system and I've never
tried playing any 5.1 music on it. So I'm not sure if I'll even be able
to access the proper menus to make it play in the correct format.