Better than my entry level Yamaha when playing SACDS! About comparable to DVD-Audio on the Yamaha, but these are redbook CDs! Better than my old Rotel cd player I used to use. Did I get this sound for $20 off ebay!?! Yes, I did. Very "fluid" sounding cd sound, great DAC. My Linn Sara's sounded almost lifelike on singers and drums and guitar with the playstation 1! Super smooth midrange and voice. Better stereo imaging than I've ever had in my system. Only when using the normal RCA outputs of these (like Stereophile did in their review), and *note* only when NOT using the memory chip plug in on the front, which degraded sound, and using high quality rca interconnects too, did these shine.Īnd shine they did. I don't know if this is because the stock Sony AV Multiouts are horrible cables or if the normal RCA outs and their slightly different output stage circuitry is necessary, but this is what I observed. Using that, they were about like the first 1001 sample but without any odd noises in the ouput. The 2nd and 3rd samples I pickup up off ebay and apparently, that is a much better source than goodwill because these took my breath away! BUT, not using the AV multi out. I'm going to try that on this sample and see if I can bring it back. Note that it does this on some cds, not others, but none of them had any scratches on them! It just didn't want to play all cds right! I've read that the cd lasers on these need to be adjusted sometimes. It is weird, but some cds would play fine, or seem to, and others would create a skipping noise, similar to the earlier bad playstation Stereophile had in the first review. Well, this playstation sample, which I got at a goodwill for all of $9.99, turned out to not play all cds properly. I was disappointed based on the review describing this. I use a Yamaha 5 disk sacd/dvd-audio player for those formats. Very decent and about as good as my (originally about $550 retail price) Sony cd recorder RCD-W500C, which I use as my main cd player, in some respects but not all. This sounded much better than the 5501 model, with some imaging and smoother sound. Then I put in the first sample of the 1001 using the same AV multi outs. It had a reasonable midrange sound, but that was about it. It sounded better than a typical modern $100 player, but nothing amazing. This model didn't have separate RCA outs on it's own but reportedly does use the same DAC as the 1001. The first one of these I tested was the SCPH-5501 model that I used originally with the Sony AV muti-connector to get to the RCA outs. I'm posting my observations here for others.įirst of all, I ended up trying out 4 separate playstation 1's in my system, 3 of them the correct SCPH-1001 model number and one of a newer SCPH-5501 model. This is a list of VGCollect users who have Sony PlayStation SCPH-5501 (3-966-398-7) in their Collection.After reading the Stereophile review of the Playstation 1 in the July 2008 issue, I had to get one of these and try it out. Additionally, the A/V direct out and RFU power connector have been removed. Additional bottom item number: 3-966-398-7įor this model the CD-ROM drive is re-located on the right side of the CD bay, with the lens carriage being reinforced and the power simplified, fixing the FMV skipping issues of prior models.
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