2015-12-24, 20:36
(2015-12-24, 19:56)jjslegacy Wrote: I am still curious on this PCM vs passthrough debate and why everyone thinks they "need" passthrough so their AVR blinky lights look good. From my reading there literally is no difference so why is everyone always passthrough paasthrough passthrough? Just curious what I don't know
There is metadata in the bitstreamed audio (Dialog Normalisation) etc. that allows receivers to do post processing (like loudness reduction etc.) that you can't do if you decode to PCM in Kodi, but in the main I agree with you.
