[Iguana Man]

Originally posted by lakshman
I had the opportunity to do a little shoot-out test where we had a six-channel unencoded master going out to both a Dolby Digital encoder and a DTS encoder. Those in turn going to the respective decoders, and coming back to a console. And I could switch between the three sets of six channels; unencoded audio, Dolby-encoded audio, DTS-encoded audio. And the difference between the unencoded audio and the DTS was negligible. There might have been a little phase variance in the subwoofer channel, but besides that, the whole soundfield was still there and held up very well. Switching to Dolby Digital, it was like somebody put up brick walls between the speakers and we were now listening to something that was no longer a nice, circular, ambient sound. It was more like we were sitting inside home plate of a baseball field. You know with your center speaker being the pinnacle of that point on the plate and it was very cut in stone that those were your limitations, like brick walls. That's the best way I can describe it as opposed to being airy, fluffy pillows.

That is exactly how I see it. Nicely said and great analogy.