[Rune3400]

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

 

[snakeeater69]

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. 

 

[Rune3400]

Ok thanks snakeeater
 
But how about those settings? What did you use?
 
I guess i can still play blu ray audio only

 

[jasonb]

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.

 

[swmtnbiker]

 
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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.

 

[Rune3400]

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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?
 

 

[swmtnbiker]

Probably not.

 

[oqvist]

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.

 

[SOUNDinterpreter]

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?

 

[Rune3400]

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)

 

[bacardi]

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

 

[Fife]

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