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Wayde wrote:
 Why Blu-ray?
My own opinion for what it’s worth…
When bitstreaming, I personally don’t see any step up when spending the extra money on the $999 models. The unit isn’t decoding so its DACs are irrelevant. It’s just sending bits to your receiver for so I really don’t care if it’s a radio shack breadboard with a few ICs dangling from it. I’m of the bits-is-bits school. But then, I’m really not a dedicated audiophile.
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All BD Players decode the audio. Some are just capable of re-encoding it to send it over HDMI as a Dolby True or DTS MA HD bitstream. A DAC is not involved in this process as it stays digital. The Denon DVD-2500BTCI transport doesn't have any DACs either and only has one HDMI output on the back. I would suspect that the quality of decoding/re-encoding would come into play. Whether the BD player or AVR does the final decoding and the differences in quality is something that has not been discussed/analyzed in any great detail.