PSP Sound Quality

[phyrefly]

How 'bad' is it? Is it anywhere near the ipod headphone out? (which is pretty horrible IMO)

I'm stuck between buying a proper IEM for my commute and pairing it up with my Zen Xtra or buying a PSP and use it for both games/music.

If it's anywhere near the SQ of the smaller flash DAPs out there, that'll be enough

 

[imusion]

It sounds better than my Creative Zen V+ but that is not saying much.

But not as good as my much older Creative Rhomba. The sound feels a little 'hollow' at times I think.

 

[kobansora]

WAhhhhhh! The PSP sound quality is horrible! The sound is way too dull compared to anything else out there that you can buy...

Go to Amazon.com and order a Zen Vision M or something. Buying the PSP to play music is one thing, but if you're really into sound quality I'd say there are cheaper and better options out there.

~JJ

 

[yiliaozhang]

soundstage is great.(5.1)

 

[spinrite]

from what i could remember sound output was horrible. lots of hiss and sounded quite flat

 

[uraflit]

with the psp money, go get a PMP! cowon a2 maybe? just my suggestion

maybe even a meizu m6

 

[blipmusic]

I have a kind of love/hate relationship to my PSP.

I've tried really hard to abuse its *possibilities* but always come to the conslusion that all it really is is a gaming machine. The worst culprit is, IMHO, its short battery life. Yes, its fast CPU and graphics chip set needs power but when on the road I always have the feeling it's going to die on me when I'm in the middle of something.

Movies: I have to transcode, bleah. Then I'd rather use my Axim x50v together with TCPMP which usually plays whatever file I throw at it. Combined with a 2200mAh battery I'm good for several 45 min TV shows and a movie or two (even three).

Then it happens: I sit down and play a little Ridge Racers and I'm fooled all over again. It's fun and it looks *good*, something that actually counts (to me) in a racing game. All in all, though, my DS gets far more play time (anyone tried Puzzle Quest? No? For your own good don't. You'll loose to much precious headphone time!

)

I guess I'm a bit of a handheld freak, though so I probably won't sell my PSP (until a new one comes by... *sigh* I'm not even sure I'm in it for the games anymore, it's more of a handheld obsession

) but using it as my all-in-one machine as Sony wants us to? No. Been there, tried that ("done" is too strong).

If you aren't aching for any of the PSP games, my suggestion would be to get a DAP/PMP instead; better audio quality, easier to handle and better battery life.

 

[Anthrox]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blipmusic /img/forum/go_quote.gif Then it happens: I sit down and play a little Ridge Racers and I'm fooled all over again. It's fun and it looks *good*, something that actually counts (to me) in a racing game. All in all, though, my DS gets far more play time (anyone tried Puzzle Quest? No? For your own good don't. You'll loose to much precious headphone time! )

A little OT but have you played Puzzle Quest for the PSP? I played that first then tried to play the DS one so I could multiplayer with my friends but I just couldn't do it. Interface was badly layed out and the graphics looked just awful after playing the PSP one.

 

[blipmusic]

Only tried on DS, I'm afraid. No net/multi play either. But yeah, I can see how the DS version would fail in the graphics department compared to the PSP version and I agree about the interface. Well, the game can't really be said to look *good* compared to other offerings on any of those machines anyway, I guess. But it's *so* addictive! I'm mostly an RPG guy and my first thought when hearing about Puzzle Quest was "meh!" and now when I'm about to put the DS down I think "just one more battle".

Seems I'm not the only one:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/26
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/28