quick audio question!!!

[seansmith09]

having the HD A20 player for True HD sound will I get the same lossless quality out of the yamaha 6090 with PCM (which I can get for $750) or will I have to wait and spend the extra money for the pioneer elite VSX-91TXH for $1,199.99 which will support true hd. Just wanted to know since there is a big price difference between the two. Just wondering if the audio would sound the same and what the big differences would be. thanks guys

[cardpetree]

The receiver won't be decoding the audio anyway so it won't matter.

[TheGreenDude]

Having the player decode the TrueHD track to PCM is going to sound the same as having the receiver decode the TrueHD track. Actually I thought there was some issue with the way the players have to decode then recode the audio to output TrueHD or DTS MA because of the audio from special features/popup menus and so it was better just to have it send PCM anyways.

[seansmith09]

hey thanks a lot guys

[pat00139]

You may want to spend an extra 250 over the Yamaha and get the Pioneer vsx 9120. It can handle DolbyTrueHD and DTS-HD, so you won't have to worry about conversion to PCM.

[cardpetree]

You may want to spend an extra 250 over the Yamaha and get the Pioneer vsx 9120. It can handle DolbyTrueHD and DTS-HD, so you won't have to worry about conversion to PCM.

The player will still send the signal as PCM stream since there is not a HD DVD or Blu-ray player that will send Dolby TrueHD or DTS HD to the receiver for the receiver to decode it.

[seansmith09]

yeah I fully understand what you are saying which is great because it confused me a lot, but I found out today that I can actually get that pioneer for $714 which is less than before (apparently we can order from the manufacturers and still use our discounts which is awsome) so I will get it and hopefully that will future proof me since it will have HDMI 1.3 anyways. Thanks again for your help