Copy/pasting this from my MySpleen comment (I may also post this in the Technical Help section here):

Well, I’ve been able to encode the audio to DTS without the pop/static artifacts that Audacity introduced for me the first time around, but whether I use eac3to or Surcode directly (yes, I know eac3to uses Surcode’s encoder), MediaInfo always reports the DTS output as 24-bit. I cannot seem to get a 16-bit end result no matter what I do…

…however in doing some research I’ve seen a TON of people essentially saying that a bit depth value for a lossy codec is meaningless.

So I guess my question is…does it matter if the final DTS track is “24 bit” at all? Will this cause compatibility issues for people? And if so, does anyone know how to get a 16-bit 1510kbps DTS encoded from 16-bit PCM input? Either from Surcode/eac3to or from a different program?