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In Reply to: RE: Oppo 105D Review Kal is right posted by TGT on July 07, 2014 at 13:45:45
When I used analog from my Oppo 105 and Sony XA5400ES through Cary Cinema 11a inputs set to bypass, I agreed with Kal. Now that both go through a Parasound JC-2, I think I prefer the Sony. The JC-2 seems to have lifted a veil from the sound of the Sony, so it presents a well defined soundstage with nicely balanced sound. The Oppo does sound a bit brighter. To be fair, the Oppo is burdened by speaker management duties, so it cannot play DSD whereas the Sony can. This week I anticipate introducing an Ayre C-5xeMP into the setup, and perhaps moving the Sony to a setup in our living room.
OTOH, the Oppo 105 does everything well.
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Kal,
I've compared DSD with PCM from my Oppo 105, and I'd guess my ability to identify which is which in a blind test would be about chance, so the Oppo does speaker management. It's also used with a DirecTV HD-DVR and for playing Blu-ray movies, and I use its stereo output for front LR. It is the only surround music source in my setup. The sound of concerts on Blu-ray, with either of the two losses codecs, is superb. I think DSD may be one of Sony's trick ponies, and it plays the DSD layer if available. I believe the Ayre C-5xeMP I'll be installing in a couple of days does not convert DSD to PCM, but has lights that show when it is playing DSD or the bit rate of PCM.
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"I've compared DSD with PCM from my Oppo 105, and I'd guess my ability to identify which is which in a blind test would be about chance, so the Oppo does speaker management."
The Oppo can do speaker management in PCM but it need not. One cannot blame speaker management for being an issue when you can bypass it.
I guess I didn't make myself clear. I doubt doing speaker management infringes on the sound of the Oppo 105, but I mentioned it for those who might think it does. The Oppo can't do both speaker management and DSD, so when I compared its DSD and PCM output of SACDS it obviously wasn't doing speaker management. I choose to have it do speaker management, because it's the only component I have that will do it. The Oppo in effect is my processor; the JC-2 is an analog stereo preamp that I use to select among sources. I do have a pair of Velodyne SMS-1s that I use with a pair of HGS-15s for LF acoustic room correction.
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I've been listening for several weeks now to stereo using the Ayre C-5xeMP. It's superb as expected with DSD; what was unexpected was the improved sound with CDs. I've settled on the Ayre for stereo and the Oppo 105 for surround and HT, and, until Oppo adds acoustic room correction to its product, I think I'm through buying disc players. The Sony XA5400ES is in the living room system, and shares a Proceed PAV/PDSD with an Oppo 95. The system uses a Proceed Amp 2 and a pair of KEF 102/2s, stuff I've had for decades that still sounds pretty damn good.
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