DA converter from receiver or blu ray player?

[pp61]

Dear All,

I hope I can get some advice for the following. I am using an "old" Pioneer VSX-D2011 receiver and will buy a blu-ray player in the near future. What will be better, connect the player by digital out and have the DA converter in the amplifier do the work or buy a player (example Pioneer BDP-LX71) and connect the 7.1 audio line out to the 7.1 audio input from the amplifier. In the latter the DA converter of the blu ray player will do the job? I have no idea if the blu-ray disks have an audio format that my DA converter from 2002 cannot understand.

Regards,

Pedro

 

[AcuDefTechGuy]

You new a new blu-ray player and a new receiver.

If your receiver is older, it will not have TrueHD or DTS-HD decoders that are on most blu-ray discs.

Your old DTS decoders will decode the DTS-HD sound into regular DTS sound, but it will not be able to decode the TrueHD sound. If the blu-ray disc also has Dolby Digital Plus or Dolby Digital, then your old DD decoders will work fine.

If your receiver has the 5.1 CH analog inputs, then you can let your blu-ray player do all the decoding and send the final signal to your receiver.

Which one is better if you had the option? Probably doesn't matter. But I prefer to let my receiver do all the processing.

 

[pp61]

Thanks for the info. The receiver is from 2003 so the DA converter will not "understand" the new blu-ray sound formats. Probably best to focus on blu-ray players with a good 7.1 audio analog output.

Pedro

 

[CraigV]

Thanks for the info. The receiver is from 2003 so the DA converter will not "understand" the new blu-ray sound formats. Probably best to focus on blu-ray players with a good 7.1 audio analog output.

Pedro

...like a Panasonic BD55 or the new BD80

 

[Lordoftherings]

Two of the very best from their multichannel analog outs.

+1 from the post just above. The Panasonic DMP-BD55 and DMP-BD80 is just the right antidote for legacy receivers like yours.
By the way I own the BD55, and I can confirm the excellent sound quality from it's multichannel analog outputs, with it's excellent Burr-Brown Dac chip (PCM-1681, 8-channel Dac), and with Elna and Rubycon capacitors in his analog section.

Bob