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Music DVDs better in 2 channel

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Take for example the eagles Hell freezes over disc. You can select between 5.1 DTS or 2 channel PCM. If you were to choose the 5.1 DTS mix as most of the people on this list suggest, you will get full surround sound which ends up beeing crowd noise in your surround channels. Whoop-de-freakin doo, like i need to feel the crowd behind me, and i really need to hear the guitar moving back and forth in 3d surround space.. NOW....if you choose the 2 channel PCM mix, what do you get? 2 channels of pristine uncompressed audio. Better sound quality, bottom line. DTS and DD 5.1 mixes may sound great but they are compressed with a lossy compression method to get around the bandwidth throughput cap of DVD, that 2 channel PCM stream is uncompressed audiophile bliss.

Granted this is one rare case in which 2 channel is better, but just to experiment, try out that 2 channel option every now and then, you may be surprised.

Casey


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