In Reply to: Get it. posted by Joe Murphy Jr on February 28, 2001 at 22:14:35:
I (a reviewer) agree... DTS beats Dolby Digital every time in every system at every price point and it is not subtle. Quite a few movies have both DTS and DD on the same disc... switch back and forth a few times and you'll see. Given a choice, I'd never listen to DD. That said, if there is nothing else to compare it to, DD can sound pretty good... the James Taylor live performance DVD is an example... seems to sound pretty darn good with only a DD soundtrack. So the difference you will hear is not so much "DD is terrible and DTS is great" - it's more like "5.1 DD is really cool, but 5.1 DTS is even better". I find the DTS soundtracks to sound more like modern digital sound and the DD tracks to sound more like older digital sound - not as transparent, not as detailed, not as "listenable".
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