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In Reply to: RE: Please post your experiences with music stored on a hard drive posted by bboroski on May 20, 2015 at 13:51:18
I've got the 105D and with just using the CD drive section, it was easily more musical than my $9k Esoteric CDP.
I later switched over to using the OPPO's passive volume attenuator for significant improvements and when I finally switched over to using thumb drives and then an SSD, significant improvements yet again.
Funny, though for the first month or so of using a thumb drive with the 105, the audible differences were negligible. But within a month or so, the differences were quite audible and large.
Just be very careful inserting the drive into the OPPO's USB ports. Recently I forgot to ground myself before inserting my SSD into the OPPO's USB port and I saw a night little blue arc between the USB plug and the OPPO's chassis.
Turns out I fried the SSD's firmware and it was irreparable. Bad enough that the cost of the SSD was down the drain, but since I had only maybe half the music backed up, I still haven't fully recovered from the loss.
Electrostatic electricity is not your friend. Always ground yourself first before plugging in or unplugging the drives. The OPPO was unscathed.
But the SSD or HDD is definitely the way to go. First and foremost for the eventual and rather significant improved levels of musicality. But then when you use your iPad with OPPO's free app, you'll also have a beautiful and simple user interface to access all of your music with just a few swipes of your finger.
I'm assuming of course the 103 is not much different than the 105.
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It sure is in my case since it can make beautiful sound. :)
My vote for *Most Interesting Statement* (in your response)!
It's *obvious* that the Oppo's USB ports needed to burn in. Until then, the 1s and 0s are mal-formed and you don't get accurate data transmission...
Sheesh!!
-RW-
those mal-formed 1s and 0s are the pits.
Something like that.Oh, I get it. You're one of those that has abandoned your untrustworthy ears and rely solely on measurements to determine if you've reached the audio holy grail.
Why don't you try visualasylum.com?
Of course, over there, they can't rely on their untrustworthy eyes so they revert to listening with their ears.
Or was it, viewing with their ears? Yeah, that's it. Very confusing.
Edits: 05/22/15
In fact they've been in training for going on 50 years now. And I honestly do not hear "huge" differences between digital files played back from USB via my Oppo BDP-93 from the 1st day I did (about 4 or 5 years ago) so until the present. It sounded terrific right off the bat and still does so.
And if I were one who relies solely upon measurements to discern differences, I'd have to ask you exactly what measurements I should be looking at because I highly doubt that a scope trace of the USB output would have changed one jot over time and I most certainly have not jacked a bunch of test equipment into my rig so I can look at squiggly traces and such.
It's probably more accurate to say that *your* ears became trained to the sound and found it more pleasing over time and that my ears simply made the leap on the very 1st day...
-RW-
"exactly what measurements I should be looking at"
If you take the dive, try looking at read-latency variations and powersupply current variations and spectra. I think that at least the large drives do quite a bit of wear-leveling and the "seek times" (or whatever you call it with flash) change with use and mapping and not necessarily in any sort of linear way. The controller may decide that you've got too many bad sectors and dump a block in favor of using a whole new one so they might even "improve" with time.
Sure the data is ultimately the same but unfortunately the systemic result may not be.
Just a thought...
Rick
50 years, eh? You're obviously confusing developing trained ears with pleasure listening.Look at it this way.
For years, every Sunday you've been driving your grandmother to a church that's 40 miles away in your BMW M5. You take the plunge and drop $40k into your M5 for a DINAN package that significantly alters the suspension, the snake and exhaust, the shifting, braking, and the overall engine power by 105HP.
On Monday, you pick up the M5 with the new DINAN package and you're so excited with all the vast improvements that you call in sick the next few days just so you can take a road trip.
The next Sunday you pick up your grandmother for church and on the way there you explain to her all the modifications you just had done and what they've done to the M5's performance.
And your grandmother says, "It seems the same to me. Why did you waste your money like that?"
Your grandmother would have made for an excellent "audiophile".
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