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If you own a CD-ROM burner, you can have a taste of what DVD-Audio has to offer by burning a DTS CD. DTS is very similar to DVD-Audio in many ways: they both support multiple channels in 24bit/96Khz PCM and they both use compression to limit the amount of space needed to store it on a disc. The crucial difference is that DVD-Audio uses a lossless compression scheme while DTS uses a lossy compression scheme. This means that data will be lost when DTS is decoded while DVD-Audio will preserve the original data structure.
In practice DTS can be found in 4 sound qualities, most using 20bit/48kHz (a qualified guess):
754 kb/s: Used on DVD.
ca 1200 kb/s: Used on DTS CD.
1509 kb/s: Used on DVD
24bit/96khz, unknown bitrate.
In comparison, full DVD-Audio in 6 channels use a bit rate of 13824 kb/s. Despite this, DTS can sound pretty close to DVD-A using the max. bit rate of DTS of course.
If you own a CD-ROM burner, a DTS compatible DVD player (virtually all new DVD players are DTS compatible) and a DTS compatible surround amp. (again, virtually all new surround amps are DTS compatible), then you can download DTS wav files using the links below and then burn them onto a CD and voila…you have a DTS CD ready to be played in your DVD player.
Master pinguin
Sveriges radio
Trancez
minnetonka (right click and "save as")
DTS-phile
Diatonis
Kelly industries
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