"b" wrote in message
ps.com...
Apologies if this has been discussed before, I'd be interested to read
peoples' thoughts on this idea. Considering you can find PS1 s for
peanuts at boot fairs etc, who knows we could be missing out on saving
ourselves thousands on a high end cd player ;-). Sounds generally
ridiculous audiophoolery to me:

http://dogbreath.de/PS1/index.html

-B


Apart from operational considerations like track access times, lack of IR
remote control and the like, the only concern I have is that the DAC used in
the PS1 is an AKM 4309, which is aimed at the AV market rather than the
hi-fi market. The performance on distortion and noise is somewhat lower than
current DACs are capable of. Having said that, I am firmly of the opinion
that provided the performance is already below the generally-acknowledged
thresholds for audibility (at least amongst audio professionals) then
improving on that will not benefit the perceived sound quality. The AKM DAC
is comfortably better than that, so should result in an audio performance
that is indistinguishable from "better" CD players. I can't make any
comments about the error correction and jitter performance of the PS1, but I
would expect the former to be perfectly adequate.

S.



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