3D Sound Surge has posted a review on the Jazz Speakers DE-005 and DE-006 Digital Audio Decoders.

With the arrival of DVDs the interest of DD 5.1 has increased significantly over the last few years. The first stand alone DVD players as well as the software DVD players only offered to down-mix the 5.1 channels to stereo/Dolby Prologic or to pass it on to an external decoder. With a quite significant number of people already owning a multichannel speaker system (4 or 5.1) for use with a Dolby Prologic decoder or 4-speaker soundcard the market for stand alone Dolby Digital decoders was obviously quite significant. In the last couple years the competition for stand alone decoders has increased quite significantly to the point where there are even many inexpensive stand alone DVD players offering 4/5.1 output and many software DVD Players offering the same. The quality of software DVD players 4 and 5.1 output was relatively poor early on but today the quality has increased quite significantly to impressive levels.

Read more