In Reply to: You are uttering complete nonsense posted by Frank on January 27, 2003 at 12:23:48:
Yes, I've heard DTS 96/24, at home and at shows. If you think it's superior to regular DTS, you fell for the marketing hype or are hearing a souped-up mix.You need to read "Backward Compatible Enhancement of DTS Multi-Channel Audio Coding That Delivers 96-kHz / 24-Bit Audio Quality" by Zoran Fejzo, Stephen Smyth, Keith McDowell, Yu-Li You, and Paul Smith - Digital Theater Systems, Inc. AES Pre-print 5259, presented at the 109th Convention.
It was written by DTS themselves and explains, in a nutshell, that a DTS 96/24 encoder splits the incoming data into two halves; one half contains the legacy backward compatible core data, whereas the other carries the extension data. In a 96/24 decoder, the 48kHz portion of the signal is upsampled to 96kHz, then combined with the true 96kHz element.
The entire audible frequency range, 20Hz - 24kHz, is carried by the core encoder, but the available data is split between the two encoder halves. In a regular 48kHz DTS system the 20Hz - 24kHz range is delivered at 1,536kb/s, in a DTS 96/24 system that same area of the spectrum is delivered at 1,152kb/s since 384kb/s is dedicated to the utterly pointless, inaudible extension data.
As I said, read the document. If you think DTS 96/24 sounds better, then fine, but don't try to say it is superior to any other form of DTS, it isn't.
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Follow Ups
- Re: No, You're Spouting Nonsense. Read... - NotMe 19:18:51 01/27/03 (7)
- You misunderstand the documentation. - Frank 00:18:37 01/28/03 (5)
- Re: No Misunderstanding Here - The Documentation is Clear - NotMe 12:00:17 01/28/03 (4)
- Re: No Misunderstanding Here - The Documentation is Clear - Frank 07:35:46 01/29/03 (3)
- Re: No Misunderstanding Here - The Documentation is Clear - NotMe 09:43:52 01/29/03 (2)
- Re: No Misunderstanding Here - The Documentation is Clear - Frank 12:32:04 01/29/03 (1)
- Re: Beating a Dead Horse. - NotMe 21:40:10 01/29/03 (0)
- >>>384kb/s is dedicated to the utterly pointless<<< - Joe Murphy Jr 19:32:52 01/27/03 (0)