[QUOTE="BroweChisox"][QUOTE="danneswegman"][QUOTE="BroweChisox"][QUOTE="danneswegman"][QUOTE="BroweChisox"]If you are buying a new setup, there is no reason to not get HDMI in. The increase in sound quality via HDMI blows anything you can send through optical away. It is totally foolish to invest in a non HDMI system now. For a receiver, I would recommend the Denon AVR887 or AVR-2307ci, both are steals at their price. Speaker wise, you can go anywhere from 100 per pair to $30,000 per pair. Hard to give a suggestion without knowing room dimensions or price range.jdang307optical out is just as good. it's not like YOU will hear a difference. What are you talking about? Do you not have a clue? The difference between uncompressed sound via HDMI is 10 times better than compressed DD or DTS through optical. How could you not notice an uncompressed 7 channel track when compared against a lossy 5.1 track? HDMI also allows players to decode DTSHD or DolbyHD and send that uncompressed signal directly to the receiver. I pray to God that you will not argue that you can not hear the difference between DTSHD and compressed DTS. not ten times... we can't tell, you neither. Those differences are measured, but not with human ears.... and not all audio trough HDMI is uncompressed. It is clear you do not know what you are talking about. I am not sure why you are arguing this point... maybe you are bitter about recently purchasing a non-HDMI receiver? The difference between an uncompressed track or a DTSHD/DolbyHD track is enough that my wife easily noticed the difference and made a comment without me even letting her in on what was going on. If you have never used/experienced HDMI audio, maybe you should just stop posting before you embarrass yourself even more. You should not be able to easily distinguish between Dolby TrueHD/DTS HD and multi-channel PCM. These both utilize lossless codecs, i.e. post-HDMI processing in theory should make them identical to uncompressed tracks. Not sure how your wife can tell the difference. And you got it wrong, HDMI does not allow players to decode DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD and send an uncompressed signal to the receiver. The player sends that DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD signal to the receiver via HDMI, where the receiver decodes it. It's called post-HDMI processing.
Toshiba's HDA2 HD-DVD player cost $350 and it decodes DTS-HD and TrueHD
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