I felt that the sound from the ps3 RCA outs was about the same as the optical through the dacmagic. Through an eastern electric dac, I noticed a fair amount of improvement.
With the ps3 the biggest improvement for me was when I set the audio to 44.1khz. The default 48khz sounded pretty dead.
With the ps3 the biggest improvement for me was when I set the audio to 44.1khz. The default 48khz sounded pretty dead.