honest opinion.... YES!!
i dont have sensitive ears.. i started on the visual side... then i told myself, once i have a good hd setup, ill stop there..
then i bought a 605, and since i have a collection of hd/bd decided to get a sammy bd up5k duo player.. (to preserve ps3.. and gave my tosh a30 to my sis)..
was following this thread and said, why not, since i have the hardware, might as well make the most out of it..
then it was followed by 3 weeks of frustration... only to find out that the "lastest" fw update that i applied to my sammy wasnt the "LATEST" with the 1.3 bitstream support.. (what is it with long fw version name of sammy? cant they stick to 3 digit version?)
then last night, after almost giving up, i tried to check for an update.. and EUREKA...
with a pounding heart.... and fingers crossed, applied the update.... placed a BD sampler with DTS MA.....
....
all the frustrations are worth it.. its like a long treasure hunt and finding THE TREASURE!!
and the difference you ask??
for a newbie and untrained ear.. IT WAS STAGGERING DIFFERENCE!! audio quality and volume was x2 of that of 5.1....
now im beginning to understand when the said that DTS and DD 5.1 was "lossy"...
actually to be fair.. its not lossy.. the best way to describe uncompressed audio vs compressed is that... with compressed audio, youre like given appetizer.. and with uncompressed audio, its the whole buffet!
its more like an ephiphany of clearly hearing what wasnt there in the first place...
and i have untrained ears at that.
hope this
FR post has helped...
word of advice.. if you have the hardware.. might as well make the most of it!
its worth it...