SACD's with the PS3

[frostbyte]

I have an Outlaw 990 which doesn not have HDMI. If I use the PS3 for SACD listening, I'm guessing I'd have to use the Toslink fiber option. Will I hear a difference from a normal CD using this method? How much better would it be with a new processor and using lossless HDMI?

 

[Davemcc]

The PS3 will only send SACD via HDMI and your receiver will need to be at least HDMI v.1.2 in order to decode it. Toslink doesn't have the bandwidth.

 

[j_garcia]

You can send STEREO via the standard RCA cable (included)...but to get multichannel, you need HDMI 1.2 as mentioned.

 

[knewsom]

I dunno about that... I bought Pink Floyd: DSOM, and have my receiver hooked up via optical Toslink, and according to everything I was looking at, the PS3 was outputting DD (or perhaps it was DTS, I can't recall). Anyhow, the sound compared to the standard CD portion of the disk (both were accessible) was NOTICEABLY clearer, cleaner, sharper, AMAZING, and I'm fairly certain that the surround mix WAS in fact working.

 

[dorokusai]

Dolby Digital/DTS is not SACD and less proprietary.

This is from www.sa-cd.net ...

SPDIF (coaxial or optical digital audio output) is not compatible with DSD; only with PCM (IEC- 60958) and MPEG2 Multichannel, Dolby Digital & DTS (IEC-61937). Reportedly some Sony SA-CD players perform down-conversion to PCM 88.2 kHz, a sampling rate which is officially not part of the SPDIF spec but in practice supported by many AV receivers nowadays.

Mark
Polk Audio CS

 

[knewsom]

I stand corrected!

I just tested it again, and it was receiving PCM, then running the Neo:6 to the surrounds. It did sound better, though, I'm really not sure why, if t was only stereo still.