DTS Audio Files

[Captin]

I've just recently started playing with DTS audio files, and the sound is very good indeed.

On the newsgroups there are tons of these DTS audio CD's, normaly in WAV format. With the correct codec's installed you can play them on your PC. I use PS3mediaserver to stream them to my PS3 and output the audio to my amp through the optical link.

About 70% of the DTS audio cd's available on the newsgroups are converted from stereo and just expanded to 6 channel DTS.

The real surroundsound DTS files are mostly taken from ether SACD or DVD.

For example I'm just listening to Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here. The DTS wav files is converted from a digital recording made from the original quad 8 track cassette. It sounds like you are standing in the middle of the band as they are playing.

The Alan Parsons original quad mix of Dark Side Of The Moon also sounds fantastic in true surroundsound.

Lately there are a lot of DVD-Audio disks on the newsgroups. These can also be converted to DTS wav files.

I don't think I want to listen to plain old stereo again.

 

[Raven24]

I just use regular old FLAC myself....no different and no worse than listening to the actual CD. If I can find some Guns n Roses in SACD or DTS then I'm all over it though lol.

 

[Captin]

I have found the new Gun's and Roses album on DTS but it's an upmix from stereo.

Just listening to War of The Worlds SACD to DTS conversion from the 2005 Jeff Wayne remaster. Fantastic. There are things I've never heard in the original LP or the original and remixed stereo versions.

I have found that in the proper surroundsound DTS disks, as opposed to the upmixed ones, there are thing I've never heard.

I have quite a few old beatles albums that are moxed into quad DTS, leaving out the center and bass, these are mastered from the original 4 track recordings.

All my other albums, around 6500 of them, are 80% flac and 20% MP3 @ 320.

 

[calisto]

I
Just listening to War of The Worlds SACD to DTS conversion from the 2005 Jeff Wayne remaster. Fantastic. There are things I've never heard in the original LP or the original and remixed stereo versions.

Any chance of a link to this please m8?

 

[jamesyboyjim]

I'm surprised sacd isn't all that popular, or at least doesn't seem so.

You have inspired me to search for some dts torrents now war of the worlds must be amazing!

If you have the correct files can you just burn them to cd like you would a regular album? Or is it.a different animal altogether? Special software required etc...

What about mp3 players?

 

[Captin]

I will be uploading War of the worlds to rapidshare and newsgroups tonight.

DTS is not audio, it is data, so if you play it in a stereo all you get is white noise.

DTS files need to be decoded by a DTS amp or equivalent (eg: pc sound card).

You can burn them onto a CD for playing in a DVD player. Some DVD players will play the DTS-WAV files just like they play MP3 files, so you can put a few albums on a USB flash drive or onto a DVD-R.

I use my PS3 to play them. I use PS3mediaserver to stream the files to the PS3, and it send the data to my amp to decode into audio.

DTS-WAV files are not the same as multi channel WAV or FLAC or MP3 files.

I would think that NO mp3 player would play DTS-WAV files, and you can't turn a DTS-WAV file into an compatible MP3 without losing the multi channel.

If a DTS-WAV file is encoded from a SACD CD there is almost no quality loss.

If a DTS-WAV is encoded from a DTS DVD then the quality is better than SACD.

You can also download specialist DVD films that are made from surround sound audio CD and files.

The war of the worlds I downoaded as actually a DVD with a menu for the songs and 3 versions of the album.

Audio track 1 was a QSXT upmix of the original LP.
Audio track 2 was a SACD to DTS conversion of the 2005 Jeff Wayne remstered SACD.
Audio track 3 was the DTS audio taken from the live double DVD.

I also have the live 2 DVD set and thats quite good, it's good how they brought Richard Burton back into the show.

 

[Captin]

Rapidshare links and NZB file for War Of The Worlds DTS has been posted here,

https://www.digitalworldz.co.uk/index.php?threads/242067/#post1797403

 

[sargie]

war of the worlds on audio is awesome i have fond memories of it as a kid really engrossing.

Personaly i can't tell the difference between dolby digital and DTS i think the only dvd i own in DTS is signs.

 

[Captin]

Personally I can't tell the difference between Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS, they are just different companies. But they dont produce dolby digital WAV audio files for some reason, they are all DTS-WAV format.

DTS-WAV files made from SACD or other non-dvd sources are typically encoded @ 1411kbp/s (see below) which means they are higher quality than Dolby Digital.
But DTS-WAV files ripped from DVD are lower.

One of the DTS Inc.'s initial investors was film director Steven Spielberg, who felt that theatrical sound formats up until the company's founding were no longer state of the art, and as a result were no longer optimal for use on projects where quality sound reproduction was of the utmost importance. Spielberg debuted the format with his 1993 production of Jurassic Park, which came slightly less than a full year after the official theatrical debut of Dolby Digital (Batman Returns). In addition, Jurassic Park also became the first home video release to contain DTS sound when it was released on LaserDisc in January 1997, two years after the first Dolby Digital home video release (Clear and Present Danger on Laserdisc), which debuted in January 1995.

DTS and Dolby Digital (AC-3), DTS' chief competitor in the cinema and home theater market, are often compared due to their similarity in product goals. In theatrical installations, AC-3 audio is placed between sprocket holes, leaving the audio content susceptible to physical damage due to film wear and mishandling. DTS audio is stored on a separate set of CD-ROM media, whose greater storage capacity affords the potential to deliver better audio fidelity. However, the separation of print film and audio track has both pluses and negatives. AC-3 (and SDDS) reside entirely on the 35 mm film itself, simplifying distribution by eliminating an extra (optional) deliverable. But DTS' CD-ROM media is not subject to the usual wear and damage suffered by the film print during the normal course of the movie's theatrical screening. Disregarding the separate CD-ROM assembly as a potential point of failure, the DTS audiopath is comparatively impervious to film degradation, unless the film-printed timecode is completely destroyed.

In the consumer (home theater) market, AC-3 and DTS are close in terms of audio performance. When the DTS audio track is encoded at its highest legal bitrate (1509.75 kbit/s), technical experts rank DTS as perceptually transparent for most audio program material (i.e., indistinguishable to the uncoded source in a double blind test). Dolby claims its competing AC-3 codec achieves similar transparency at its highest coded bitrate (640 kbit/s). However, in program material available to home consumers (DVD, broadcast, and subscription digital TV), neither AC-3 nor DTS typically run at their highest allowed bitrate. DVD and broadcast (ATSC) HDTV cap AC-3 bitrate at 448 kbit/s. But even at that rate, consumer audio gear already enjoys better audio performance than theatrical (35 mm movie) installations, which are limited to even lower bitrates. When DTS audio was introduced to the DVD specification, studios authored DVD movies at DTS' full bitrate (1509.75 kbit/s). Later, movie titles were almost always encoded at a reduced bitrate of 754.5 kbit/s, ostensibly to increase the number of audio tracks on the movie disc. At this reduced rate (754.5 kbit/s), DTS no longer retains audio transparency.

AC-3 and DTS are sometimes judged by their encoded bitrates. DTS proponents claim that the extra bits give higher fidelity and more dynamic range, providing a richer and more lifelike sound. But no conclusion can be drawn from their respective bitrates, as each codec relies on different coding tools and syntax to compress audio.

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