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RE: BluRay musings for me and a friend

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In Reply to: RE: BluRay musings for me and a friend posted by Sordidman on December 09, 2008 at 10:33:33

>>taking the digital COAX audio output into her Stello DAC then off to her Manley Stingray, - two channel. <<

So, let's talk about this. AFAIK, the Stello does not decode Dolby Digital or DTS, so you will need to set the player to downmix Dolby Digital/DTS 5.1 to PCM. When you do this on a standard commercial DVD or Blu-ray, the output is limited to 16/48k PCM.

So, it's lossy DD or DTS, downmixed to mid-res PCM. It's basically about as craptacular as you can get. You're then feeding it via a digital interconnect into a DAC, which converts it to analog, then sends it via interconnects to the Stingray's preamp section. Nothing untoward about this other than it's several points for crappy audio to be made crappier. You also have the opportunity to introduce lip-sync delay because of all that stuff in the middle, and the Stello won't allow you to correct for it.

I suggest that it would be better to bypass the Stello DAC - it's not going to help the situation. Instead, let the player do the D/A conversion, and output 2ch analog from the player directly to the Stingray.

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RE: BluRay musings for me and a friend - docmark 11:35:57 01/10/09 (0)
Let me get this straight. I'm using a Sony BluRay BDP 5000ES with a 2 channel system. I'm taking the coax out of the player and running it to an EMM Labs DAC2, then out to my preamp (Ayre KX-R). Would it really be better to have the Sony handle the DA conversion, and then run the analog output to my preamp?
Yeah... that's a good point..... - Sordidman 15:42:04 12/09/08 (0)
Probably best to go Analog....

On my DirecTV box, - I'm getting a delay, - sounds like the audio is in a reverb tank. As I understand the audio output of the DirecTV box, - if one does not switch on Dolby Digital, - it does PCM.

I have my DirecTV Toslink hooked up to the input of my Monarchy Audio DIP/upsampler and the sound is much improved. But,... going into my main music rig is going to be better than the cheesey speakers on my Hitachi.

Thanks for your post Racer....

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