New Kodi Box (Acer Revo RL70 Replacement)

oHUTCHYo · 26 Oct 2015 at 22:46

After buying a Yamaha YSP-2500 soundbar, then going on a mission to re-rip a lot of my MKVs with TrueHD / DTS-HD audio, I've just realised my Acer Revo RL70 doesn't even support HD audio! (only DD/DTS are selectable in Kodi's advanced settings)

What is a decent box to replace it with? It's only to run OpenELEC/Kodi and stream my MKVs from NAS.

Keep reading about the Intel NUC but £250 is perhaps more than I wanted to spend given the unit's usage of solely playing MKV.

Bonus Question: is it even worth the upgrade, will I notice a marked difference in the HD audio on a mid-range soundbar? Presumably my existing setup will decode HD audio in to standard DTS/DD5.1?

.:SAmSuNG:. · 26 Oct 2015 at 22:58

Can't say I notice the difference when I'm watching a movie with normal dts or dtshd. I don't really expect it's worth upgrading for your current set up.

oHUTCHYo · 26 Oct 2015 at 23:04

.:SAmSuNG:. said:
Can't say I notice the difference when I'm watching a movie with normal dts or dtshd. I don't really expect it's worth upgrading for your current set up.

Just what I wanted to hear

FerretBoy · 27 Oct 2015 at 07:14

Again I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference either and have £5k or so of speakers and amp.

Avalon · 27 Oct 2015 at 10:09

I'd not get overly excited if i'm honest, the improvement isn't going to be massive and life changing. If you're ripping them again, rip them with HD/MA for future use, but personally i'd not say it was worth getting excited enough to drop £250 on.

Dsteviedee · 27 Oct 2015 at 10:16

I notice a big difference going from Pro Logic/DTS Neo to Dolby Digital/DTS, but as others have said, not much going to HD.