Joe
You need to ensure that your future player decodes BOTH TrueHD and DTS-MA.

As near as I can tell, most of the Pioneers don't do DTS-MA, even though they have promised Firmware Updates for several Players to include DTS-MA decoding (e.g. Pioneer 09) I'm not sure how many of these Firmware Updates have actually been delivered though

Once the Decoding ability is in the Player, I don't think anyone has been able to identify any differences between Decoding in different players. The Quality of DAC's used in the Player can influence the result, but when outputting Digital over HDMI, I don't believe that there are any differences currently. Maybe in the future.....


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