Are you able to tell the difference between DTS and DTS-HD MA/TrueHD?

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I can't, but I have mid-range speakers.

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@ezekiel43: I can but DTS is actually pretty good as it has a higher bitrate than Dolby Digital. So, it doesn't sound as compressed. Dolby Digital compared to the uncompressed formats is more noticeable of a difference.

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@BassMan said:

@ezekiel43: I can but DTS is actually pretty good as it has a higher bitrate than Dolby Digital. So, it doesn't sound as compressed.

I know. Dolby Digital is 640 kbps max. Not asking about that, though. 1536 kbps (compressed DTS) is already such a high bitrate.

I also can't tell the difference between MP3 and FLAC with my Sennheiser HD 6XX headphones.

I wanna save space, but I don't wanna get rid of something that does make a difference.

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@ezekiel43: Which songs have you tested the MP3 vs FLAC versions of?

The first time I tested some decent headphones, I could tell there was a small difference between MP3 and FLAC. Probably a really shitty mp3 version of that song.

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There can be VERY noticeable differences between lossy and lossless multichannel audio. DTS HD MA and Dolby True HD generally sound deeper, richer, broader, louder, more detailed, and more dynamic than standard lossy DTS and Dolby Digital.

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@Comduter said:

There can be VERY noticeable differences between lossy and lossless multichannel audio. DTS HD MA and Dolby True HD generally sound deeper, richer, broader, louder, more detailed, and more dynamic than standard lossy DTS and Dolby Digital.

Well, obviously TrueHD is gonna sound a lot better than Dolby Digital's mere 640 kbps between five channels. But the difference between 1500 kbps DTS and HD MA or DTS and TrueHD? No, I don't think it's that significant at all.

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@ezekiel43 said:
@Comduter said:

There can be VERY noticeable differences between lossy and lossless multichannel audio. DTS HD MA and Dolby True HD generally sound deeper, richer, broader, louder, more detailed, and more dynamic than standard lossy DTS and Dolby Digital.

Well, obviously TrueHD is gonna sound a lot better than Dolby Digital's mere 640 kbps. But the difference between DTS and HD MA or DTS and TrueHD? No, I don't think it's that significant at all.

In this case, it depends on the individual movie you're watching. There is a huge difference in sound quality between the dvd DTS track and the blu-ray DTS HD MA track for the Simpsons Movie. For many movies, there is a big difference, and for many others, not so much. The DTS and DTS HD tracks for Hannibal sound almost identical.