BEn,

I think you missed the point. The beef here is the article had no point to it nor substance. You have to do better than 'it depends' when describing LPCM vs bitstream. For the most part, anyone who is buying now will bitstream everything for primary audio. You get dialnorm and better jitter control with bitstreaming, and secondary audio with LPCM (which you did mention). Dialnorm and an explanation of jitter that could've been desribed and discussed. Instead, the article was thin on info and seemed to be searching for a theme. It could've been a well received article as many folks have questions of LPCM vs bitstreaming, However, the response here is pretty well consistent that the article you wrote was a very poor one and vague at best.

Perhaps, try and research LPCM and bitstreaming and republish the article. I don't know of other writings of yours but I am sure you'd concede you could've done more homework on this one.

All HT sites are free... But that does not mean that answers and articles should not be competently written and detailed for the experts as well as the noobs. That is business sense 101. This article should be removed and re-written. Darwin's law applies to websites, too.

More like Dr Pepper out of a can versus a bottle.. Diet and regular have 2 different sweeteners in them. Lossless bitstream and uncompressed LPCM are bit for bit identical in composition.

For movie soundtracks, is is like Dr Pepper poured from a can to one cup and out of a bottle into a second cup... Mask and switch around and then determine which is which... Then repeat the exercise 10 times in a double blind manner and see if you can reliably pick Dr. Pepper out of a can or out of a bottle when tasting either from a cup!

I don't think this is the spotlight Ben was hoping for.

This article is a word salad. What is the point? There is not one scientific mention or technical mention between the two modalities of transmission. Jitter is the primary difference in sound quality between bitstreaming and LPCM... and you don't even mention jitter! Bitstreaming is theoretically better as the everything can be re-clocked upon decoding in the receiver, making D/A conversion in sync with the master clock at the receiver. In terms of offending equipment, the most elite equipment will have better clocking / D/A conversion ,etc, so that is the stuff to buy. There is no 'offending equipment' per se. Not sure where you got that from.
Whether you'll perceive the improvements is a topic for another debate.

Next time you post for your website, have a grasp on the topic and add some depth to the discussion.