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An engineer at Axiom disagrees with me and we're going to continue this discussion over a beer. . .
Hmm... so all I have to do to get out for a beer is disagree with you?
Again, to my ears (without running a trojan to capture bitstream data for comparison between the two)... DTS' compression seems to be psychoacoustically better at the same (or nominally the same) bitrate as Dolby Digital's. Much in the same way you can compress a PCM stereo audio track with u-Law encoding and with MPEG Layer 3 and get a file roughly the same size, but the MP3 will sound better. I'm not so sure this battle is that cut and dried as just how MUCH information is thrown away, but has more to do with WHAT is thrown away.
Of course, I could be talking out my as... er, hat - and DTS might just play some delay and phase games that make it sound the way it does.
Bren R.
