I have been diving into the depths of the audio settings on my PS3 and my Pioneer SC-05. This was prompted by a recent thread where someone (Zimm maybe?) couldn't get their 3808 display to read DTS-HD or similar. I was experiencing the same issue with my SC-05 and PS3 combo. So after research I am now clear on always setting the PS3 to LPCM and letting it decode everything rather than the PS3 sending bitstream to my SC-05. So now to my question for you audio guru's out there:
Is there any benefit in terms of pure quality of sound (forget menu beeps and the like) to letting one device decode the audio vs. another? In other words can a modern AVR 'better' decode DTS-HD than the PS3 or any other BDP? Or is it simply a yes/no equation where the output of decoding is the same regardless of 'who' decodes it?
I could not find a definitive answer to this in my research so far, but there always seems to be an answer here!
