Well, you can\'t argue personal taste or preference. When I set these systems up, they look the same on the RTA and thus would theretically sound identical in the same room. Let\'s put it this way folks....
We\'re talking movies here, but the theory should apply to all forms of media. When a soundtrack is recorded, it\'s recorded by whomever\'s making the film (or someone they\'ve hired anyway). Then it\'s mixed and mastered by an engineer, who again, works for the folks making the film. These engineers don\'t work for Dolby or DTS or anything, Dolby and DTS are just tools they use to transfer the sound data from the recording to the auditorium.
Now, as a sound engineer, it\'s my job to make these sound systems reproduce that sound track according to standards that these engineers expect me to comply with. This way, the movie\'s sound track is faithfully reproduced. I don\'t however, have any control over what the actual recording will sound like in relation to it\'s digital counterpart. That\'s taken care of at the studio where the film was mixed and mastered. So in short, if the Dolby and DTS mixes are the same at the studio, they should therfore be the same in the auditorium.
If you\'re hearing a difference, it\'s not DTS or Dolby\'s fault, it\'s the engineer who mastered the soundtrack\'s fault. So in conclusion, you won\'t be able to argue to me whether or not one is superior. And that whole thing about DTS using more data is just stupid. Regardless of the bit rate, you either have a digital signal or you don\'t. More digital data coming through the DSP doesn\'t equal better sound coming out the other end, with a digital signal, it simply works or it doesn\'t. There is no degredation of a digital signal.... and I got news for you folks, it all ends up a big fat analog signal anyway.
Now, I didn\'t get the impression that anything he said was confusing. I think that if you carefully read what he said, you\'ll find he\'s being very clear about things. It\'s when a bunch of other people jump in there and make short comments about it, throwing in little pieces themselves, often these little pieces being disinformation, that things begin to get confusing.
