Bluray owners- Which connection to get best sound?

Chris,

Thanks, but I would never buy a preamp with DAC's in it. To be honest, I rarely (once every couple months) even turn on the receiver, or run through my preamp. I'm not worried about perfect audio calibration. I rarely watch movies on a disc, and when I do, 90% of the time I just run it through the HDMI and listen to the audio through my TV.
I'm not a big HT buff. The video of the Blu-ray is nice, and I do use Netflix, but only two movies a month. Believe it or not, I have trouble squeezing that much movie watching into my schedule.

John

(For DVD not Blu-Ray player) I found that using the analog out from the player into the reciever, and using the reciever for volume control only gave me the best sound for my 5.1 system. For some reason using digital out from the player and having the reciever do the processing sounded harsh and edgy.

Greetings,
I use the 5.1 analog out connections to get the uncompressed audio. This sound is considerably better than audio via the digital connection. I don't have the hdmi connection for uncompressed audio so i can't tell you anything there. The only problem i see with the sony player(not sure if the pioneer is the same) and the analog out is, i can't change speaker distance in player and have to use the processor to control that.

I use the coax digital out from the Pioneer BDP-HD1 with my Valhalla digital cable. This feeds my Theta Casablanca. The sound is awesome. I wish some of the new blue ray players had a digital balanced out .

Rugyboogie,
You should try the Analog connections out into your Casablanca( Six shooter?). The sound is noticably better. I had it connected with the Virtual Dynamic Revelation Signature digital cable and switch to analog direct connect to my processor. Wow.