Zyber Commentary: Uncompressed vs. Lossless Audio

[Pirate]

A couple of months ago, I wrote a column called Blu-ray and HD DVD Audio Explained that spelled out the basic functions, features, and differences among the various audio formats available on both High-Def disc types. In it, I explained that uncompressed PCM audio (as found on many Blu-rays) is an exact replication of the studio master, encoded on disc without compression, and that the lossless audio formats Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio are also bit-for-bit identical to the studio master once decoded. Doing the math, that should mean that a lossless track is also identical to an uncompressed track. Indeed, that is the case. However, some confusion remains as to whether an uncompressed track is actually better than a lossless one.

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[Vonner]

Moral of the story..."They're both equally good, so sit back and enjoy."

[Derb]

If everybody owned the exact same player & receiver & hooked up with the exact same cables & everybody had their settings identical to one anothers, Than yes I'd agree TrueHD or dts-HDMA or LPCM all sound the same.