Apparently the PS1 provides superb high fidelity audio playback...

[biggestmuff]

someone send him this thread:

GaryKrakow@FEEDBACK.MSNBC.com

 

[EvilYoda]

I thought you were going to reference this thread.

Have fun reading!

 

[DanTMWTMP]

what's avforums take on this? or any other forum w/ lots of audiophiles?

and woa it's dug?!?!?! when did he get unbanned? WB dug.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: flashbacck

Before I started my listening tests, Michael had a warning for me: "Plug in the units ? turn ?em on ? and don?t turn them off." It seems the PlayStations sound best when left on all the time. Michael was right. You shouldn?t even listen for the first three days. Both units need every second of the break-in period.

hmm. this reaks of stupidstition...

Yeah, all my alarms and buzzers went off when I read that line.

 

[biggestmuff]

I read the first two pages. Some people get to be too silly.

 

[cheesehead]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Paddington
CD's are digital audio. The sound is read the same way by a $10 device as by a $1000 device.

You would think that an alleged audiophile would know that.

Maybe if he was just using it as a transport, but he wasn't. And of course I'm sure there will be a line of people telling me the difference between different transports too (well, maybe not so much around here)

I beg to differ. A crappy transport (like my old Koss CD player) will skip constantly. A well-made CD transport (like my 6$ Denon CD player) will not skip.

I dare you to find someone who will disagree with me when I say that this makes a HUGE difference.

(Especially when it skips the awesome guitar solos.)

 

[DanTMWTMP]

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: flashbacck

Before I started my listening tests, Michael had a warning for me: "Plug in the units ? turn ?em on ? and don?t turn them off." It seems the PlayStations sound best when left on all the time. Michael was right. You shouldn?t even listen for the first three days. Both units need every second of the break-in period.

hmm. this reaks of stupidstition...

Yeah, all my alarms and buzzers went off when I read that line.

based off this hack's previous articles, I never trusted the guy. But ya, what is this "break-in" period he speaks of? what are its "advantages?" Why the hell do you need a "break-in" period on a almost-non-mehcanical device? enlighten me please. where does breaking in electronics come from?

 

[tweakmm]

Originally posted by: Paddington
CD's are digital audio. The sound is read the same way by a $10 device as by a $1000 device.

You would think that an alleged audiophile would know that.

Too bad the ears arn't digital either...

 

[fleshconsumed]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP

Originally posted by: Eli

Originally posted by: flashbacck

Before I started my listening tests, Michael had a warning for me: "Plug in the units ? turn ?em on ? and don?t turn them off." It seems the PlayStations sound best when left on all the time. Michael was right. You shouldn?t even listen for the first three days. Both units need every second of the break-in period.

hmm. this reaks of stupidstition...

Yeah, all my alarms and buzzers went off when I read that line.

based off this hack's previous articles, I never trusted the guy. But ya, what is this "break-in" period he speaks of? what are its "advantages?" Why the hell do you need a "break-in" period on a almost-non-mehcanical device? enlighten me please. where does breaking in electronics come from?

It doesn't. It's silly how far audiophiles will go with the burn in myth. Some of them will go as far as saying that any high end cable needs at least several hundreds of hours of burn in before it can sound best. Well, I can understand headphone/speaker burn in because those are largely moving parts and they do need break in period, but cables... plain bullshit....

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Cheesehead

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Paddington
CD's are digital audio. The sound is read the same way by a $10 device as by a $1000 device.

You would think that an alleged audiophile would know that.

Maybe if he was just using it as a transport, but he wasn't. And of course I'm sure there will be a line of people telling me the difference between different transports too (well, maybe not so much around here)

I beg to differ. A crappy transport (like my old Koss CD player) will skip constantly. A well-made CD transport (like my 6$ Denon CD player) will not skip.

I dare you to find someone who will disagree with me when I say that this makes a HUGE difference.

(Especially when it skips the awesome guitar solos.)

I was just saying that maybe this was good as a transport, geez

Does this thing even have digital out though?

I retract my statements about the transports being similar, I was just telling Paddington his argument would only make sense as "digital is digital" if both players were just being used as transports. Then you can refute that with arguments about jitter and whatnot. I just wanted to let him know that he would have to base his argument off them being used as transports rather than using them for analog output for his statement to have any bearing on what was going on.



Ok, I'm done.

 

[DanTMWTMP]

he references 6moons. is that a laughable review site?

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: EvilYoda
I thought you were going to reference this thread.

Have fun reading!

Seems there is something to it after all :Q

 

[flashbacck]

Shouldn't it be really easy to prove whether there is or isn't something to this? Hook up the Playstation or a high end player to a digital recorder and compare the wave outputs to the original CD.

 

[dug777]

Originally posted by: flashbacck
Shouldn't it be really easy to prove whether there is or isn't something to this? Hook up the Playstation or a high end player to a digital recorder and compare the wave outputs to the original CD.

I know not of this audio automagic