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In Reply to: RE: I know, right? posted by flood2 on March 31, 2015 at 18:07:38
With respect to the Oppo 103 you might be surprised what a little mu metal, AB2100S, Audio Magic Super Fuse, WA Quantum Chips, and damping the transport will do for transparency, detail and bass performance. Guess it all comes down to where one is satisfied with the sound. These are things I did myself AFTER I received my Modded Oppo 103. Otherwise, the Oppo 103, even the modded one, sounds rather generic and blah.
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Good grief! There's a lot of tweaking going on there! What were the original mods on the unit before you actioned the extras?
I am very impressed with the 103 as a product - nicely made and a very good feature set.
You are quite right - everyone has different requirements, tastes and preferences. In my case, the Oppo is only for network audio streaming and audio disc playback (CD, and home produced DVD Audio) and my downstream components are such that the source is effectively irrelevant.
I don't use the Oppo as a video source and haven't listened to my Oppo via the analogue outputs as my reference playback system is entirely digital feeding up to the power amp...and so have no idea how "bad" it would sound and therefore no motivation to do any internal mods. Others may find that they need to tweak their Oppo to improve the sound. In my case, given the downstream configuration, tweaking the Oppo would achieve nothing that justified the effort and expense.
As an audio transport, the stock unit performs very well (suggesting solid engineering). Even the HDMI output (which as an interface is reknowned for high levels of jitter for audio) is not bad when feeding my M51 DAC directly. The M51 uses a 108MHz reference clock (which happens to conveniently be a standard pixel clock) so I wouldn't be surprised if the HDMI input is reclocked with respect to the internal reference of the M51 but still nowhere near as good as a Grimm CC1 or Apogee Big Ben! However, to listen to an SACD layer with an external DAC I have to use HDMI.
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
It was all planned, I never actually listened to the Oppo prior to mods by EVS. Then as time passed here were some interesting things that happened along the way, many things really. It's all a question where one chooses to get off. I'm more experimental perhaps than most. For me, it's more or less a never ending saga. Hopefully never ending. Everything is relative. I can certainly understand why someone would prefer not to touch the Oppo.
Edits: 04/02/15
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