Playstation as CD-player

[Mick_F]

Most of the people writing harsh comments never even listened to it...

[pieroh]

Originally posted by Mick_F
Most of the people writing harsh comments never even listened to it...

Hi,
a nice quote concerning this matter:

"....I do know that the audio world is "enriched" with a lot of so called " armchair audiophiles"..and that is how it always was.
Do you want to find out with your own ears? Heat up your soldering iron and find out for yourself...."

Triode Dick (www.triodedick.com)

Peter

[Glenn_G]

How is everybody going with Miick's new power supply?
Any more built yet?
I am in the process of accumulating parts but still need to decide on which traffo/s I am going to use.
It would be great to here peoples impression of the PS1 with linear supply.
Keep up the good work Mick.

[phn]

I have a PSU up and running. The 3.6V regulator gets quite hot despite a rather large heatsink, as mentioned by Mick. I use three paralleled 5W resistors, which might be overkill. I will probably replace them with a 4A, 1-5mH common mode choke, type these: http://www.coilws.com/emi_linefilters.html

It's great. I have no complaints whatsoever.

[Mick_F]

I recently demoed it to a friend. He is now also building....

[fishwinker]

Hi,

I only found this thread, as well as Mick Feuerbacher's website, very recently (thanks to the article on sixmoons), and managed to get myself one one epay for about £13 including postage. Sounds great, but the ease of losing exactly where you are on a CD (especially an unfamiliar one) is a little annoying! I got a little remote (very similar to that on Mick's website infact). If you plug a TV in, you get a screen with track listing, repeat options etc. in a grid which you navigate around using the up/down/left/right/OK buttons. I don't particularly want to have to get a TV. However, as each press of a button moves the cursor a single square on the grid, I thought that it might be possible to use a learning remote with macro functionality and program in a sequence of keystrokes for each function. It would probably be rather cumbersome, because you'd need to make sure you got the cursor back to a start-point each time, but if it worked, it would be very useful. I don't have a remote that could do that yet (I don't even know if learning remotes can learn so many keystrokes for a macro), and I don't know if this is an old idea, but I thought I'd put it up here in case anyone had tried/wanted to try it.

As always, thank you to everyone for all the open ideas. Over the last 6 months or so I've got rid of nearly all my old mainstream hifi in favour of DIY (amp, speakers, turntable.) I really couldn't say exactly how/whether the sound has improved, but the sound is unquestionably good, and the pleasure I get from listening to it is huge.

Philip

[phn]

I assume you didn't grow up with vinyl. Back then you actually learned album tracks by name and not by number.

Those things are what the parallel port is for. For example, when you plug in the Game Hunter/Action replay card the PSX starts instantly without the startup tune. But the card is for gaming, not CD playback.

The problem is that the people who can program these things have no interest in an antiquated gaming console, much less a gaming console as CD player.

[carawu]

Originally posted by phn
Those things are what the parallel port is for. [/B]

@ this port you can get the internal 1x FS I2S Signal in japanese format...great for nonos experiments with the TDA1545.....

Do you have a spare parallel port adapter for me?

Carsten

[phn]

Sorry, I have no parallel port anything.

[LSmanufactur]

Hi all,

here an idea for a little headphone-amp (sorry, the site is in german), maybe for a PS-CDP recasing-project!?

http://www.loetstelle.net/projekte/o...4headphone.php

Technical data (taken from the site above):

• DISTORTION: 0.00008%
  NOISE: 8nV/sqrt(Hz)
  Input Current: IB = 5pA
  SLEW RATE: 20V/µs
  BANDWIDTH: 8MHz
  OPEN-LOOP GAIN: 120dB (600ohm)
  SUPPLY RANGE: ±2.5V to ±18V

Regards Patrick