stereo coffee Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Sony PS3 presents itself as a interesting choice for music storage, and replay. The topic will hopefully explore sound quality, -can it be taken seriously ? How much storage is permissible and the many options (as well as lack of some too ) for recording and replay Sony make available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquid12 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 PS3's were noisy machines on release (spinning rust for storage, noisy fans) and most would have only gotten worse since as thermal paste dries out requiring the fan to run more, fan bearing lube dries out making the fan noisier again. I did a late life refresh on mine about 5 years ago, SSD, new thermal paste and lubed fan and still remember it being a noisy beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bob_m_54 Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 (edited) I agree with @liquid12 way too noisy if it is located in the listening area. The other thing is they don't support flac files. I think AAC, ATRAC and MP3 are the only formats they support. Edit: To be honest, I think the old original XBox was a better music server, using XBMC (now known as Kodi) Edited April 25 by bob_m_54 more info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereo coffee Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 6 minutes ago, liquid12 said: PS3's were noisy machines on release (spinning rust for storage, noisy fans) and most would have only gotten worse since as thermal paste dries out requiring the fan to run more, fan bearing lube dries out making the fan noisier again. I did a late life refresh on mine about 5 years ago, SSD, new thermal paste and lubed fan and still remember it being a noisy beast. Mechanical fan noise, Yes might a issue, and wondering if SSD might make this less, or tolerable ? . Also turning off features that are unrelated to music recording or replay. There appears less noise on mine when other features are selected off. Currently assessing if other features off assists music reproduction. and @bob_m_54 , totally agree lack of Flac is deplorable. In contrast the enormous effort Sony go to make ATRAC and WMA available by suggesting you need to authenticate each, could easily be FLAC instead not requiring any such authentication, Most users would be thankful I think to have FLAC available... and not have the others , we remain in hopefully not eternal hope with Sonys updates to correct the lack of FLAC . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muon* Posted April 25 Share Posted April 25 Much better things available for replay. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereo coffee Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 (edited) 27 minutes ago, muon* said: Much better things available for replay. Yes agree, I have many examples of better replay. The PS3 is though still a option and interesting device for music storage. Good features are relatively low in cost, easy to import ,display and arrange long playback for, and is recycling older gear, that still receives updates. My best sound quality settings at the moment are: Internet Off Bitmapping Off Audio multi output Off Optical output ON Recording AAC 256Kb I will be trying the HDMI output to RCA. Edited April 25 by stereo coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereo coffee Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 (edited) I have tried ATRAC enabled and selected at 256kb in Music settings Import, and it's a big step above the other codecs for sound quality. My notes so far are AAC at 256Kb had an annoying artificial sound like bloom added to it, which became tiresome. MP3 at 256Kb was slightly better but still not acceptable at all , as it was adding and changing the presentation. I normally listen to CD using a Pioneer PDS 904 , or for longer replay my Yamaha CDRHD1500 players. ATRAC though is a different beast altogether to the other codecs using 256kb for recording, it is very audio quality capable, and even more so at 352Kb, where it rivals if not preferences my Yamaha hard disc recorders. The PS3 recording being able to slightly better locate and portray instruments. ( Miroslav Vitous Universal Syncopations ECM ) Edited April 25 by stereo coffee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereo coffee Posted April 25 Author Share Posted April 25 When importing Cd's there is no longer support for automatic download of artist name and track information on the Ps3 , but you can still manually type in the artist name and album name, which happens to be quite easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereo coffee Posted May 17 Author Share Posted May 17 Now three weeks in,. I am very impressed with sound quality of the PS3 when selected with ATRAC highest bit rate recording. Sony did a update at the beginning of the year to improve system performance,update 4.90 and it shows. I changed my hard drives for solid state types. The videos to do this on you tube lead you in the wrong direction as the ability to format is already within Sonys hardware and software. I will provide the steps if any one is interested. I now have massive storage capability via solid state drives, with highly enjoyable ability to select playback with playlists all for under $200.00. I also enjoy my CD players Pioneer PDS 904 in particular , but it is great to have a such lovely ability to store music, and play it back as I want to, with such high quality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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