Quote Originally Posted by kexodusc
We had to adjust volumes, as the DVD's generally seemed louder than CD source.
I understand the lossy encoding nature of DTS/DD. I wonder, since DTS has a higher bitrate than CD audio, and both have higher sampling rates and use 24 bit wordlengths, does this over come the "lossy compression" set back?.
Is it possible that compressing a 24 bit, 48 kHz audio track could sound better than CD's 44.1 kHz, 16 bit signal without compression?
What I'm really looking for is a decent article or link comparing the three formats, I haven't been able to find one that compare sound quality with fundamentals to support the analysis.
DTS cannot be higher bit rate than CD as it is perceptually coded, information is discarded that is deemed inaudible due to masking. Same with DD or any perceptual coding. The bit rate is not everything but the algorythm used is. That is what calculates and discards inaudible signals.
DTS/DD has 5.1 channels too, so that may explain what you may be thinking.

I am not aware of any reliable DBT comparisons on the three.