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PS3 as transport and Hi res Audio! PS3 pro's needed

post #1 of 12
9/29/10 at 5:43am
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Hi everyone

 

To make it short, this is my setup: PS3(slim)-> (optical)-> DacMagic-> Meier Corda HA-2 MK-II SE-> HD600

 

Now to the problem: As you may know, the ps3 is capable of playing both sacd and blu ray. I am very intrestedt in these hi res formats and so i want to try them out.

 

But! i have heard that the optical cable wont send these formats.

 

To make it clear: I want good stereo sound from my ps3 to my dacmagic and to play sacd/bluray cd if possible.

 

Can i get the benefits from hi res audio?

 

Which settings do i use?

 

 

and one more question - when i set the settings to 176khz, there is no sound on cd's! but everything else seems to work.

 

Thanks

 

Regards

Rune

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post #2 of 12
9/29/10 at 8:18am

PS3 slim cannot play SACD. Only old PS3 60gb, 20gb, 80gb could play SACD. Beware of PS3's YLOD of death. It just happen to mine last night. I use it mainly as a blu-ray player/streamer so I will most likely get a Oppo-93 instead of getting another one or getting it repair. 

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post #3 of 12
9/29/10 at 8:40am
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Ok thanks snakeeater

 

But how about those settings? What did you use?

 

I guess i can still play blu ray audio only

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post #4 of 12
9/29/10 at 9:14am

optical is capable of up to 1.5mbps, that's plenty of resolution. you won't need 5.1 or 7.1 for headphones anyway, just stereo, so 1.5mbps is plenty.

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post #5 of 12
9/29/10 at 9:52am

 


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Originally Posted by Rune3400 View Post

Now to the problem: As you may know, the ps3 is capable of playing both sacd and blu ray. I am very intrestedt in these hi res formats and so i want to try them out.

 

 

If you're referring to Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, the high resolution audio formats supported on Blu-ray discs, then you are correct. They can only be output over HDMI from the PS3.


Edited by dpippel - 9/29/10 at 9:55am
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post #6 of 12
9/30/10 at 12:12am
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Originally Posted by dpippel View Post

 

 

 

If you're referring to Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, the high resolution audio formats supported on Blu-ray discs, then you are correct. They can only be output over HDMI from the PS3.

 

Then what do i do? Will get any benefits from blu ray compared to cds?
 

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post #7 of 12
9/30/10 at 7:56am

Probably not.

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post #8 of 12
9/30/10 at 8:04am

Stereo is "lossless"so you are not loosing much if anything. Unless the disc in question has a better multi channel then stereo track. Just about never the case though. There is those phono to RCA cables but then it´s not optimum to go through the receiver and then your headphone amp... Your best bet is still stereo. That is what I use at all time and I don´t feel handicapped compared to using lossless 5.1 audio. More then the obvious soundstaging advantage speakers has of course. The big benefit with bluray is for speaker not headphone listening. I wouldn´t loose any sleep about not getting downmixed 7.1 audio. If you must have that there is dedicated blurayplayers with reported good downmixing to RCA.

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post #9 of 12
10/3/10 at 4:00pm

i recently bought a ps3 and have tried the opitcal out to a DAC i have and out to some speakers. it's worked fine, but now the optical cable is stuck in my PS3. I'm afraid if I pull any harder it would break the port or something. Has this happened to anyone else here?

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post #10 of 12
10/6/10 at 9:38am
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That sounds strange. I have never experienced that, but try google.

 

Optical cables should be easy to pull out, there is nothing that holds them in (like with lan cables)

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post #11 of 12
10/6/10 at 2:11pm

doesn't ps3 decode DTS-HD and TrueHD to PCM and sends it over optical as stereo pcm?

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post #12 of 12
10/7/10 at 11:08am

For those who wihs to output 24/192 from PS3, you need a HDMI switcher unit like the Porta or Monoprice equivalent.

See http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=82217.0

By connecting HDMI out from PS3 to the Porta and using the coax or toslink out from the Porta to my Esoteric SA-50 DAC, I am able to get 24/192.

 

FYI, my PS3 does not have sacd and I use my Esoteric for that instead.

 

Hope that helps

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