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These sorts of audiophiles tend to have more time and money than they do actual audio knowledge, and they're the sorts who will drop $1000 on a gold-plated cable just because they're convinced it'll sound better. I'm no audio expert either, but I'm surrounded by them in my life (a number of game composers at that), and when topics like how some audiophiles track down a launch PS1 just to use it as a CD player come up, they just laugh. It'd always make me laugh when uninformed gamers would use 'CD audio' as a selling point for games like Final Fantasy VII when the music is MIDI. Most PS1 games I've played through don't. The number of PS1 games that actually have 'CD audio' (that is, redbook) tends to be exaggerated. I am no audio expert, but shouldn't the same DAC output redbook and cd audio?, obviously giving you better quality audio in many games that actually use CD tracks.That may be so, I don't know. Sad to say, but the PS1 wasn't a particularly well built system in general. I don't know if they have the longevity of the original, official laser units, but these days, they may be your best bet in getting a reliable PS1. When I wanted to play through Final Fantasy V a few years ago, I ended up having to use my PS2, as my PS1 just refused to play nice with it.ДЇrom what I last heard, replacement laser units can be bought for around 10-15 bucks. Some games load just fine, others can barely get through FMVs or won't load at all. In my case, my 9001 has always been my primary unit, and while I've always treated it like gold and it still looks mint, even it has started to become a little problematic in the last few years, after over a decade of working perfect.

But they're also getting up there in age, and you could just as well come across an older model that was lightly used that works better than a heavily used 9001. If you want one in mint shape that works well, your best bet is a 9001, if only because they're the youngest and are likely to have been used less than an older model. They're all about the same as far as I can tell. The thing feels like it can just about fry an egg after an hour of play.ДЄs for all the other models, I've had more pass through my hands than I can even remember (still have two a 9001 that I brought brand new myself in '99 and an another that's a 5501 or 7501, can't remember which). Personally, I've got a boxed launch model that I keep just as a collectible. If you want to actually play this thing, don't bother. Its primary issue is that it overheats like crazy. I wouldn't suggest even wasting your time on the launch model. From what I understand about the whole 'better audio' thing, it applies to using the PS1 as a CD player, rather than in-game music, but this is also irrelevant because there are just about a million devices that are better, or just as good at least, for playing audio CDs these days. It's not hard nor expensive to get the proprietary Sony cable, and unless you intend to buy and use a cheating device or some such, who cares about the port. I would imagine the RCA jacks and parallel port are irrelevant to most people these days. I do notice much better sound from these when using straight RCA's out the back but if your going to stick to the sony A/V port then I wouldn't bother looking for one specifically. If you come across one get the 1001, the skipping FMV/Audio thing is fixable on them but I don't feel its wide spread. The other ones I broke are really just broken spindles, they got pushed down too far and I tried prying them up and broke em.

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everything else runs fine so its become a test bed for my Sync over Green RGB mod for the 1001's. That being said I think only 1 of my 16(ish) PSX's are broken in any sort of manner that I didn't cause and it was a 1001 with no sound ironically enough.well it had a sound over the audio channels but it was just this weird static that changed pitch at random. Atleast something with an expansion port still.ДЄny of these are getting so old your bound to run into laser problems some where along the line its not just limited to the 1000/1001, and they are all replaceable aswell too.

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