Hi there,
I am getting my PS3 delivered this morning. What is the best way to connect it to a Plasma and Onkyo 876 amp.
cheers
Graham
I have the Onkyo 606 and personaly I have HDMI from PS3 to amp then HDMI again from amp to Plasma. Obviously means that you have to have the amp on every time you use the PS3, but why wouldn't you???
In terms of sound settings on the PS3 - I use LPCM so I get the best (IMO) sound for both games and Blu-Ray. You'll see plenty of debate on here though about the reletive benefits of LPCM and bitstream. People generally prefer bitstream wherever possible so that the amp can do what it's designed to do and decode the signal itself. Trouble is the PS3 can't output HD sound (TrueHD, DTS HD) over bitstream so the options are really:
1. Use LPCM and get the best sound available from whatever source (game, Blu-Ray etc.) but the PS3 decodes rather than the amp so it's argued may not be quite as good.
2. Use bitstream and get the amp to decode but lose HD sound from Blu-Rays (just get standard Dolby Ditigal 5.1, DTS 5.1 etc.)
3. Swtich between them. Set to bitstream but change to LPCM whenever you watch a blu-ray with HD sound.
As I say - I personally prefer to leave it at LPCM and it sounds great to me but I'm sure you'll get plenty of people saying different. Give it a try and see if you can see any difference in sound quality, and if you can decide if it's enough to bother with switchin ght esettings back and forth