Bluray question
Discussion
Looking at bluray. I have a Meridian set up and went for the DVD Audio player. Well, DVD-A is fantastic, but limited. The DVD side is good, but not Bluray.
Would I notice the difference with a ray player? Sound wise, if I did go ray, I would out put digital from the player to the meridian processor. I presume I would get DTD etc through this? Would this be a better sound than a DTS soundtrack from a DVD?
Would I notice the difference with a ray player? Sound wise, if I did go ray, I would out put digital from the player to the meridian processor. I presume I would get DTD etc through this? Would this be a better sound than a DTS soundtrack from a DVD?
If your Meridian processor can decode PCM it might be an option to use a player that will output in this format by internally decoding DTS MA or Dolby Digital TrueHD into (multichannel) PCM output. If not another option with the Oppo is to internally convert to DTS at 1.5Mbps which the Oppo will output from DTS MA and also DD TrueHD soundtracks. This is a higher bitrate than usually provided by DVDs so you get some benefit from the BluRay source. I tried this with my older Arcam AV9 processor and the Oppo BDP93 player with good results.
Recently I bought some analogue cables and connected my Oppo to the AV9 7.1 inputs (effectively the AV9 is now just an 8 channel volume control) mainly for multichannel SACD & DVD-A use. I was surprised to hear a further improvement with BluRay over using the 'CoreDTS' via coax option I mentioned above, so if you have analogue inputs it would be worth trying (the extra cost of the BDP95 is due to better analogue decoding, so if you plan this route consider the dearer player, but my 'modest' '93 sounds great. Unless you are going to use the better analogue outputs of the 95 then there isn't any point paying the extra.
Recently I bought some analogue cables and connected my Oppo to the AV9 7.1 inputs (effectively the AV9 is now just an 8 channel volume control) mainly for multichannel SACD & DVD-A use. I was surprised to hear a further improvement with BluRay over using the 'CoreDTS' via coax option I mentioned above, so if you have analogue inputs it would be worth trying (the extra cost of the BDP95 is due to better analogue decoding, so if you plan this route consider the dearer player, but my 'modest' '93 sounds great. Unless you are going to use the better analogue outputs of the 95 then there isn't any point paying the extra.
Edited by OldSkoolRS on Friday 27th January 19:02
I presume you are using one of Meridian DVD players if so which one? The 808 is a monster and would give any Blu-Ray a run for it's money with you needing to use an OPPO or high end Denon etc to get that superior picture. Most of the Meridian Players would be superior picture wise to cheap Blu-Ray players so that leaves sound. No Meridian will output 7.1 in any format but it's implementation of all the other surround formats will be hard to beat. This is an area where you need to really try the options. Given the Money you need to spend I cannot see how any dealer would refuse to lend you a demo unit so go that route.
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