Playstation 3 audio cable

AsSiMiLaTeD
AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
edited November 2007 in Video Games
Question for you guys. I've searched all over online and I can't find a single thing.

I'm looking for some kind of audio adapter that will allow me to plug my own stereo audio cables into my PS3, something similar to the little adapter that comes with the 360. Sony uses their own connector obviously, but I can't seem to find an adapter that will plug into the PS3 and let me plug my own audio cables in the other end?

Does it simply not exist, or am I just not looking in the right places?
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  • fatchowmein
    fatchowmein Posts: 2,637
    edited November 2007
    Because of the BR player, the PS3 uses a HDMI cable for both video and audio. If you want to use a separate audio cable, there's a fiber optic digital cable but you'll lose the HD audio during BR playback.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited November 2007
    i'm just looking for playback through the stereo audio jacks. I use the HDMI for video, but just need stereo audio playback. I know I won't have surround sound and all that, I'm fine with that. But right now I'm using the crappy cable that came with the console, and want to use my own analog stereo cables...
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited November 2007
    I think the proprietary connector will continue to trip you up. I've seen various quality analog cables that come with the special connector on the end (monster cable like IIRC), but although it would be interesting to have an adaptor that you can plug your own analog cables into, I'm not sure they would make one with HDMI and toslink available for upgrading the sound quality.
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  • polktiger
    polktiger Posts: 556
    edited November 2007
    Help me out just a bit...I have only hooked up to TV via composite video and stereo RCAs since I don't have a any thing with an HDMI input yet. But the optical out will not stream to my AVR to let the AVR decode surround (not HD surround, just normal, non-hdmi)? If that is the case, why even put that output on the back?
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited November 2007
    polktiger wrote: »
    Help me out just a bit...I have only hooked up to TV via composite video and stereo RCAs since I don't have a any thing with an HDMI input yet. But the optical out will not stream to my AVR to let the AVR decode surround (not HD surround, just normal, non-hdmi)? If that is the case, why even put that output on the back?

    Optical on the ps3 works just like optical on any other device. Just make sure you have all the proper menu settings. Vanilla dolby and dts stream just fine to my receiver just like my denon dvd player. Are you saying that the ps3 somehow knows you have the composite plugged in and disables the optical?
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2007
    polktiger wrote: »
    Help me out just a bit...I have only hooked up to TV via composite video and stereo RCAs since I don't have a any thing with an HDMI input yet. But the optical out will not stream to my AVR to let the AVR decode surround (not HD surround, just normal, non-hdmi)? If that is the case, why even put that output on the back?

    I was using optical at first, you have to set the sound settings to use the optical port.

    HDMI-Video/sound to TV
    Optical: avr


    ya, I had to switch between them a lot!
    Testing
    Testing
    Testing
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  • polktiger
    polktiger Posts: 556
    edited November 2007
    cheddar wrote: »
    Optical on the ps3 works just like optical on any other device. Just make sure you have all the proper menu settings. Vanilla dolby and dts stream just fine to my receiver just like my denon dvd player. Are you saying that the ps3 somehow knows you have the composite plugged in and disables the optical?

    No - composite meaning I am running the cheap little 3 wire connection that came with the PS3 - stereo analog audio and composite video. I will get a TV with HDMI in before I get a new AVR or pre, and from the earlier posts I got the impression that when you connected the HDMI out on the PS3 it disabled the optical out sending both audio and video through HDMI. That got me worried as I had planned to use HDMI out to TV for video and normal surround via optical to AVR. Sounds like I will be ok.
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  • cheddar
    cheddar Posts: 2,390
    edited November 2007
    polktiger wrote: »
    No - composite meaning I am running the cheap little 3 wire connection that came with the PS3 - stereo analog audio and composite video. I will get a TV with HDMI in before I get a new AVR or pre, and from the earlier posts I got the impression that when you connected the HDMI out on the PS3 it disabled the optical out sending both audio and video through HDMI. That got me worried as I had planned to use HDMI out to TV for video and normal surround via optical to AVR. Sounds like I will be ok.

    You will be ok. These are independent settings in the menu. I currently have hdmi 1080p out to my tv with audio via optical to my receiver since I haven't settled on an hdmi upgrade for my receiver yet.
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  • AsSiMiLaTeD
    AsSiMiLaTeD Posts: 11,728
    edited November 2007
    I can understand that they want to sell you their cables, but hell I'd be willing to pay 40 bucks for an adapter if ti existed, just so that I can use my own cables. So, make money selling me an adapter instead of a cable...

    I realize that I'm in the monirity wanting to use the analog audio output, but to not even have that options is just plain stupid. Hell, my 360 has that option, it even shipped with the damn adapter...
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