PS3 audio help

thecremeegg · 6 Apr 2008 at 16:49

Right I'm planning to buy a PS3 in the near future. My main issue however is with the audio. I will connect it from the HDMI port to my monitors HDMI so thats the picture sorted.

I have an old surround sound system which has 6 co-ax inputs, 2 for front speakers, 2 for rear and 2 for the woofer. Is there any way I can connect this to the PS3?

Cheers

msmalls74 · 6 Apr 2008 at 17:24

thecremeegg said:
Right I'm planning to buy a PS3 in the near future. My main issue however is with the audio. I will connect it from the HDMI port to my monitors HDMI so thats the picture sorted.

I have an old surround sound system which has 6 co-ax inputs, 2 for front speakers, 2 for rear and 2 for the woofer. Is there any way I can connect this to the PS3?

Cheers

I guess it doesnt have an optical input then? Anyway you only other way is to use the A/V cable that comes with the PS and connect that to your amp front speakers using the normal composite leads (Im guessing thats what you mean), you then select it as the Audio output and its sorted, but only in stereo rather than 5.1 for optical or 7.1 from HDMI,

thecremeegg · 6 Apr 2008 at 22:09

Nope no optical. My issue is that if i just plug in the front speakers then I wont get any bass

Nanoman · 7 Apr 2008 at 00:08

May have to fork out for an optical or hdmi amp then.

As mentioned above you will only be able to get stereo sound using composite or component via the av-out port.

thecremeegg · 7 Apr 2008 at 00:18

This is very annoying

Looks like its gonna be expensive if i want some bass lol

Nanoman · 7 Apr 2008 at 01:04

Get some floorstanders.

Pestilence · 7 Apr 2008 at 17:22

You'd be best to get yourself an Optical or HDMI equipped amplifier.

thecremeegg · 7 Apr 2008 at 17:28

Any recommendations for the amp? I'm useless at audio so I dont know where to start!

Inazuma · 7 Apr 2008 at 17:46

I thought co-ax was the same as optical?

Margaret · 7 Apr 2008 at 18:01

Inazuma said:
I thought co-ax was the same as optical?

I think they both carry the same audio formats but Optical uses light for the signal and Coax uses something else.

thecremeegg · 7 Apr 2008 at 21:41

Co-ax is copper or something isnt it?

I'm thinking that I may have to go for a more expensive system, like the z-5500

msmalls74 · 7 Apr 2008 at 21:50

thecremeegg said:
Co-ax is copper or something isnt it?

I'm thinking that I may have to go for a more expensive system, like the z-5500

Is your PS3 in you bedroom? I was looking for a 5.1 optical system a while back and was looking at the logitech Z-5500, but after looking i got a yamaha amp and speaker package (cant remember exactly) it was about the £200 mark inc delivery, and had 2xoptical 1x co ax digital inputs and 5.1 speakers. Not the best sound in the world but better than my old logitech ones i had.
Also have you considered using 5.1 headphones?

DolbyDigitalTHX · 7 Apr 2008 at 21:52

Inazuma said:
I thought co-ax was the same as optical?

thecremeegg said:
...I have an old surround sound system which has 6 co-ax inputs, 2 for front speakers, 2 for rear and 2 for the woofer...

The inputs the OP mentioned originally are presumably for phono leads, and would normally be used if you are using a separate decoder. Often there's one for centre and one for sub...

thecremeegg, if you're happy with stereo for the time being, you could probably still get the bass from your sub, similar to how subs work in a Dolby Pro-Logic system.

To guide you more clearly, you'd have to post the specifics of your system (all the outputs of you amp, whether your sub has cut-off frequency control, etc...)

thecremeegg · 8 Apr 2008 at 01:19

Its a pretty basic amp/sub combined. Does its job for me so obvously I'd like to keep it but it looks like I wont be able to. As I described before, they are the only inputs on the rear

DolbyDigitalTHX · 8 Apr 2008 at 08:15

thecremeegg said:
...As I described before, they are the only inputs on the rear

well, I was asking about outputs, not inputs... Having said that, do you not have standard RCA inputs, such as those label tape/tuner/video, etc?

Point being that you can connect the PS3 to your amp with the basic RCA phone leads (red/white cables) but still get adequate sound.

For example, on my sub (it's about 10 yrs old I guess) there's speaker cable connections and a standard single RCA that connects to the 'Sub Out' from the amp so even on a stereo/pr-logic setup, either connection will give you plenty of bass. In fact, chances are you will get too much bass that way, hence the need to tweak the cut-off control to suit your taste.

There should also be bass settings on the amp that will affect the sound output...