what's the best sound i can get from a ps3 to 7.1 receiver with optical (toslink)?

[BlahBlahYouToo]

receiver is the one from ht-sr800 from a couple years ago. i bought without researching much on the newer codecs, etc.

bitstream lossy DD/DTS 5.1 or 2.1 ch PCM with prologic processing are really my only options right?

which one sounds better?

 

[Chapbass]

Not positive on this, but I would say that DTS 5.1 is going to sound tons better than a 2.1 signal with fake channels added in for effect. DTS sounds pretty good, and definitely seemed to be the best around until trueHD/DTS master audio came out.

 

[kalrith]

DD/DTS 5.1 will be loads better. That's what I use. Note that BD players transmit a higher bitrate sound over the optical connection than DVD players do, so you'll actually be getting pretty decent sound.

 

[Blazer]

What sounds better ?

depends on what you want to hear, your mobo/sound card specs will determine whats available to send to the receiver, and your receiver specs will determine what can be sent to your speakers/ via the # of speakers you have available.

example: both my receiver and sound card can do 7.1, per my speakers [5] i only use 5.1 and it plenty for my ears, your results may vary.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

You should use DD/DTS with that setup.

Use prologic if you prefer when you have a stereo source. With a Multichannel source, having discrete channel information for your speakers will be a much bigger difference than using PCM and only getting 2 channels + pseudo surround.

From my research and personal experience, going from DD/DTS to the HD audio formats is not nearly as big a deal as some people make it out to be.
Here's as close as I've found to a double blind article on comparing the DD/DTS to lossless formats
http://www.hedmag.com/node/Dolby_TrueHD_DTS-MA_versus_Uncompressed_PCM
On Dolby's own reference system / room, they had a hard time telling the difference in short clips tested several times back to back.

There are probably huge issues with your system that need to be resolved that would make much bigger differences than the improvement you'd find going from DD/DTS to the HD audio formats that you're not able to get now.

Having Audyssey in your receiver is probably making a big improvement for the system. Optimizing room placement, attacking any acoustic issues with room modification, getting multiple subwoofers, upgrading speakers, etc. are all probably going to be bigger differences in your sound than getting the lossless audio tracks.

I don't want to call anyone a liar if they think that the new HD audio formats are a huge difference. There are a ton of people out there who do think that there's a huge difference. Keep in mind that there are a lot of variables in comparing the two, and without asking about how they actually compared the two, the conclusion could be very misleading.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

You should use DD/DTS with that setup.

Use prologic if you prefer when you have a stereo source. With a Multichannel source, having discrete channel information for your speakers will be a much bigger difference than using PCM and only getting 2 channels + pseudo surround.

From my research and personal experience, going from DD/DTS to the HD audio formats is not nearly as big a deal as some people make it out to be.
Here's as close as I've found to a double blind article on comparing the DD/DTS to lossless formats
http://www.hedmag.com/node/Dolby_TrueHD_DTS-MA_versus_Uncompressed_PCM
On Dolby's own reference system / room, they had a hard time telling the difference in short clips tested several times back to back.

There are probably huge issues with your system that need to be resolved that would make much bigger differences than the improvement you'd find going from DD/DTS to the HD audio formats that you're not able to get now.

Having Audyssey in your receiver is probably making a big improvement for the system. Optimizing room placement, attacking any acoustic issues with room modification, getting multiple subwoofers, upgrading speakers, etc. are all probably going to be bigger differences in your sound than getting the lossless audio tracks.

I don't want to call anyone a liar if they think that the new HD audio formats are a huge difference. There are a ton of people out there who do think that there's a huge difference. Keep in mind that there are a lot of variables in comparing the two, and without asking about how they actually compared the two, the conclusion could be very misleading.

my receiver has audyssey!

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Having Audyssey in your receiver is probably making a big improvement for the system.

yep