I am currently connecting my ps3 to the tv hdmi and then through optical lead for sound. Or am i better connecting the ps3 to the reciver and then tv with hdmi leads
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Connecting PS3 To Onkyo Reciver For Sound. HDMI OR OPTICAL????
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For my setup I have gone the HDMI route i.e.
PS3->HDMI->Onk 606->HDMI->Kuro 4280
No need for an optical connection.
PS3->HDMI->Onk 606->HDMI->Kuro 4280
No need for an optical connection.
mike0619:
Cheers,
Any idea if its any better
Substantially, yes - if your PS3 is connected via optical to your 605, then you are not able to take advantage of Blu-ray's HD audio codecs. The connection does not offer enough bandwidth for this.
If you want to be able to experience Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM Uncompressed soundtracks on BDs, you need to connect to your PS3 to your amp via HDMI. Then you can either set the PS3 to decode onboard and send PCM to the Onk, or set the PS3 to bitstream the raw audio to the Onk for decoding there.
Cheers,
Any idea if its any better
Substantially, yes - if your PS3 is connected via optical to your 605, then you are not able to take advantage of Blu-ray's HD audio codecs. The connection does not offer enough bandwidth for this.
If you want to be able to experience Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio and LPCM Uncompressed soundtracks on BDs, you need to connect to your PS3 to your amp via HDMI. Then you can either set the PS3 to decode onboard and send PCM to the Onk, or set the PS3 to bitstream the raw audio to the Onk for decoding there.
mike0619:
Cheers so i set the ps3 pcm for best sound or butstreem
regards
Theoretically there should be no difference, as both methods result in fully uncompressed sound through your speakers.
I'd imagine, however, that most would suggest setting the PS3 to 'Bitstream', just to get the DTHD and DTS-HD lights and logos lit on the amps display! That, and the 605 should do a pretty good job of decoding, being a WHF 5-star product in its day.
Cheers so i set the ps3 pcm for best sound or butstreem
regards
Theoretically there should be no difference, as both methods result in fully uncompressed sound through your speakers.
I'd imagine, however, that most would suggest setting the PS3 to 'Bitstream', just to get the DTHD and DTS-HD lights and logos lit on the amps display! That, and the 605 should do a pretty good job of decoding, being a WHF 5-star product in its day.
matengawhat
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What PS3 do you have? If it's slim, set it to bitstream so you will get the HD audio format and lights to display on your amp. If it's an older model, all is not lost, you're still getting exactly the same bit for bit lossless audio when the PS3 is set to LPCM and doing the decoding. Decoding is simply unpacking or unzipping of the audio data stream and in theory it should not matter where it is done. I think too many people equate differing volume levels with better sound quality and if the volume levels were balanced, they could not tell where the decoding was done. In fact with some BD Live enabled discs, you will have to decode in the player if you want some of the additional features that are being forced, sorry offered to us with these new discs.
Regardless use HDMI but try optical. Some people have found they prefer the optical lossy option. Strange but true.
Regardless use HDMI but try optical. Some people have found they prefer the optical lossy option. Strange but true.
Knew I was forgetting something! As d4v3pum4 says, only set your PS3 to Bitstream if it is of the newer 'Slim' variety, since this model is able to bitstream HD audio. The older, 'Fat' variety, cannot do this due to a hardware limitation - so if yours is the older version, set it to 'Linear PCM'.
But like I said before, the results of either option should be comparable at the very least.
But like I said before, the results of either option should be comparable at the very least.
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