DTS? Dolby this that and another thing?

[Sir Terrence the Terrible]

Well then I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.

I am okay with that.

I've heard Neo* "try" to "create" separate channels from two channel sources and, while it's great for a party mode to get sounds out of all available channels to fill a room, it falls woefully short of "creating", from a two channel source, anything like discrete channels from native, multi-channel DD/DTS sources.

Neo at least was not designed to sound like DD or DTS. PLII on the other hand can compare very accurately with both, and this I heard for myself at PLII introduction demo at Dolby Labs.

If you really think it does, well, I guess our standards of what's acceptable "multi-channel" sound differ significantly. But, then again, I'm not a pro in that field. I only know what my ears tell me.

...later

*and DPLIIx

It is not just your ears. But your room, your setup(are your speaker set up to Dolby, DTS or THX recommendations)), your rooms acoustics, and various other things that can impart differences on what folks hear.