I have figured out quite a bit over the last day. Foremost, most Blu-ray movies only have a sample rate of 48kHz regardless of them being Dolby True HD, DTS-HD, or DTS-MA. Many of them are at 24bit but there are also a large number of Blu-rays that come only with 16bit/48kHz audio. This can be...

This is what I put on my post on Creative Forum: "It does appear that the AE-5 is down-mixing to 16bit/48khz LPCM when playing Blu-rays. I'm a bit disappointed that the card cannot playback at 192kHz/24bit on its 5.1 outputs given its specs. Am I missing something? Shouldn't this card be capable...

This is the reply on got from Creative on their forums when I questioned DTS-HD or DD MA support of the AE-5: "The decoding of the DTS-HD and Dolby Digital audio codecs is done by the software on the computer like PowerDVD. The media playing software will convert the audio files from different...

Thanks for your continued replies. How are you determining that card does not play back DSD files? What software are you using? Edit: I discovered how to confirm in JRiver MC23. It is converting to PCM. Also you did not reply to some of my other questions: With Blu-ray playback how did you...

Thanks for clarifying. I have confirmed in PowerDVD that playback sample rate is 48khz. How did you determine that the sample size was 16 bit and not 24 bit? I'm just curious how you determined this. Are there other sound cards that output 96 kHz or 192 kHs at 24 bits on the 5.1 outputs...

Can you explain your comment "Sadly there is no blu ray audio support as all the blue ray movies I tried, the audio was down-mixed to 16bit/48khz LPCM" All Blu-rays I have played on my computer with PowerDVD 17 have 5.1 audio and they sound great. I'm going to my 5.1 speakers with the Front...