Quote Originally Posted by Rich-n-Texas
3 pages, a lot of arguing and personal attacks later... I rest my case.

First off, I very much appreciate all the help I've gotten up to this point, especially from Mark & PS, both online and off line. I apoligize for the fact that I caused bad blood between you two by not clearly stating my objective from the outset.

I want to be able to sit in my living room and listen to a studio recorded DVD and hear the same sound as if I were watching a movie with 5.1 surround sound. I'd like to be able to close my eyes and feel like the band, in this case Queensryche is in the room playing with amps blazing. I'd also like to take advantage as much as possible of my speaker setup which I think is a pretty good one. I want to utilize the "Natural Sound" capabilities of my receiver to give me a clear image of the instruments playing.

One problem I'm having right now is that I can't seem to wrap my brain around all the DSP sound fields my receiver is capable of producing, the miriad of encoding/decoding formats, all of the options for playback on my DVD changer, and all of these acronyms in general that I'm being slammed with. I thought I knew a thing or two about stereo systems and audio in general, but that was a long time ago, and MY how things have changed.

My original intention when I first bought this machine was to be able to throw anything at it and it would play it. For me, at that time, "anything" meant music CD's, CD-R's, CD-RW's, and MP3's. It worked fine for that purpose. When I read some of the discussions here about formats like SACD, DVD-A, HDCD and the increased resolution and/or soundfield capabilities (don't even know if I'm saying that right) these formats provided, I said to myself, oh, my DVD player can play DVD-A AND HDCD. I opened up the manual but ended up being completely confused by it's crossword puzzle for rocket scientists type layout, so that's what brought me to this post.

I'll continue on and address the questions and suggestions from y'all separately, but I just wanted to try to clear some of the confusion up here. -Rich
Rich...how is the progress going? Were you able to make all of your connections and test some things out? Please let us know. Also, you are not the cause of bad blood here, this goes back to last week's thread about IS 10YRS OLD TOO EARLY TO DIE? So, don't sweat it. The funny thing is that I am not disagreeing with anyone here over why people buy a DVD-A machine. I think that most people buy a DVD player and then later realize that they can use it for DVD-A. It's not like that many people out there are buying DVD-A's anyway as the market for them is incredibly low.

MLP and DTS are different formats for audio and some prefer one over the other. While I can play both, I find myself enjoying the DTS option much more. Anyway, keep us posted with your results and be as detailed as possible so we can get you online with this experience.