Bluray owners- Which connection to get best sound?

All of the above?
I have the HDMI going to my 50" plasma. Then I have the FR & FL analog outputs going into my preamp, Sub analog output to sub. Then I have the coax digital out put going to my receiver to drive the surrounds. Simple as mud.
Probably not the optimal HT sonic setup, but I'm a 2-channel guy, what do you expect?
Great picture though.

John

Considering that most Receivers or processors have poor analog to Digital converters I would recommend using digital out (Coax over Toslink) and let your processor do the work. Later when HDMI 1.3 becomes the norm your receiver will strip off the enhanced audio track off that single cable that barely stays clipped in (new standard for locking HDMI connectors are also making their way into the arena).

Jmcgrogan2: Unless your Preamp has DAC's or unless your Receiver has really poor DAC's. You should route your source through your Receiver digitally (coax) and then run out of the reciever to your via preamp outputs (analog) into your preamp if it has a HT pass through. Otherwise you will have to make the volumn that you calibrate your Receiver output to. If it is your main source then your current method will work but will make you constantly adjust the volumn of both the receiver and preamp while watching a movie to level match the Center (not sure if you are running one)

Chris

I use a HDMI cable for both my PS3 and my HD-DVD player. Before I bought my Anthem AVM 50 I had to use the analog inputs on my AVM 20. You dont need HDMI 1.3 (1.1 will work) to get the new sound formats, the player decodes the sound and then sends it out to the processor or receiver in PCM. At this point, there isnt a processor or receiver that will decode the new sound formats. ONLY the player is capable of doing it. If you use the standard Toslink or Dig Coax cable you WILL NOT be able to receive the full bit rate the new sound formats (Dolby TruHD, 5.1 PCM, or DTS-MA)are capable of.

Bottom line, if you want full resolution, use either HDMI or you analog(multichannel)connections.