I think it only helps. You’re not losing any sound, as all the originally encoded information is still there. I recently played return of the jedi, specifically the speederbike scene, which is in dts hd 6.1 on the blu ray, in dts neural, and it sounded fantastic. The size of the forest seems to really expand and i hear more individualized tones of the speederbikes engine, plus more obvious effects of trees and rocks and debris breaking.

I’m with you and to me its not even close,dts neural x has a fuller sound while Dolby atoms sounds thin..so for people to say its about close ,I don’t know what there ears are hearing..plus for years from plain dts and Dolby prologic ,dts sounded better..Dolby gets more publicity

I’m a little bit on your side on this. I think Neural X sounds more boomy, but some subtleties are lost in the process. Can you do Dolby Surround upmixer with your receiver on DTS-HD MA ? If so, for me this is the preferred way of listening to non-object based material.

So far 2 for 2. Watched Fellowship of the Ring and Star Wars Empire Strikes Back with Neural X on their DTS Master HD tracks and they sound so much louder and bit more boom than I remember the Master HD default sound. But still wondering if up mixing to Neural X makes you lose any sound quality overall… Anyone help on this? Is it better to take a Master HD track and up mixing it Neural X or just play the Master HD track regularly?

Thanks for the feedback Jim. I agree with you that Neural:X is generally more active than Dolby Surround ! Not always a good thing, but most of the time it is !

When playing DVD Blu-Ray movies the height speakers seem more aggressive on DTS:X vs. Atmos sound tracks which I like! I still like both formats, but the Neural:X has really been a game changer for day to day TV shows.

I am using a Yamaha 2050 with 5.1.4 set up.

it would be cool to work with the directors and mix everything top-notch. another cool thing is for the imax experience they mix a different track because of the high standard equipment. interstellar and many others has 2 mixes, one for regular or thx certified theatres and one for imax otherwise the imax track would blow the speakers lol

aaah the industry!

It must be an interesting industry for sure 😉

they are in the power to make an antrance on the uhd market with a blast but nooooo… it would be awesome to work for Fox or any other company and make those decisions. i do it even for free!

Well Fox was transparent about this, they keep their Atmos soundtracks for UHD only…