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Okay.
What I think you are referring to with 5.1 being "lossy" is DVD-Video 5.1, which uses DTS or Dolby Digital as the carrier. These are indeed "lossy" codecs, but with DTS then I seriously doubt you will actually hear any difference!
Chrome & WaveLab both author DVD-Audio, which does Not use lossy compression. It uses full bandwidth, uncompressed PCM WAV files.
Therefore, surround at 24/48 in DVD-A is way, way better than stereo IMHO.
If you have both Chrome & SurCode MLP, then you can use 24/96 surround too.
I honestly believe that 24/192 stereo is not audibly different to 24/96 stereo. There may be stuff up that high, but only a dog will hear it, and wether or not there is anything up that high that is musically relevant is well open to debate.
Even manufacturers are starting to agree with this.
My advice is to stick to 24/48, or even 24/44.1 in DVD-Audio in both stereo & surround.
Chrome & MLP encoding will double the amount of music you get onto a disc at this resolution, and the real quality increase comes from using 24 bit over 16 bit, not the samplerate.
To gain any advantage from higher samplerates you will also need an amp & speakers that go up that high too, and nearly all consumer equipment goes no higher than 20KHz on the top end, making higher samplerates utterly pointless.
I have made some superb quality Surround & stereo material at 24/44.1 and 24/48 using Nuendo/Chrome/SurCode MLP.
If you need more info, feel free to ask away.
There is a way to extract surround info from stereo files with Nuendo, and I may well write a guide to doing this.
It does require some serious mucking around though, as well as a fairly good monitoring system. It can be done, and the more you do it the easier it gets.
Surround is well worth the effort, both in DVD-A version and DTS-CD versions.
Also, feel free to mail me privately for full details on these apps.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 17. July 2004 @ 05:27
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