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Just for the hell of it I connected my PS Audio Lambda transport to the coaxial input via Aural Symphonics Digital Standard to my Oppo 105D. I compared the Oppo with its transport to the Lambda. Both arrangements sound good and I hear no significant differences. The Lambda transport was well thought of 20 years ago and known for very low levels of jitter. I think this speaks well for the Oppo’s transport assembly. The Lambda has far better error correction than the Oppo.
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You said, "The Lambda has far better error correction than the Oppo."
I'd like to see your proof on that.
My $1299 OPPO 105 replaced my $9000 Esoteric UX-3SE UCDP that included world renouned VRDS transport, excellent materials, construction quality, and some bling bling.
Immediately after burn-in the OPPO was easily more musical than the Esoteric.
But after I started using the OPPO's passive volume control utilizing the 32-bit DAC's and after I by-passed the OPPO's CD transport drive and started playing music via its USB ports with Thumb Drives and SSD's as a music (together with the excellent OPPO app and my iPad as a remote control), the OPPO's level of musicality literally trounced the highly-rated Esoteric.
I suspect you are doing the OPPO a dis-service by not taking advantage what it can really offer you.
Stehno, I agree about the 105 sounding better thru usb. I use external hard drives. Do you think thumb drives & SSDs sound even better? Is there a way to use an external SSD without a computer?
thanks
Barondla
I tried an ext. HDD for one night and did not notice any differnce for that short maybe 30 minute period.
I had great difficulty trying to get my SSD drive to work. The external case was for USB 3.0 and that did not work.
Using an ext. case for USB 2.0 does work just fine. As does a USB disk migraiton cable.
A USB 3.0 case might work with a Y-adapter USB cable plugged into 2 ports so it can get extra juice but I've not tried that yet.
BTW, I fried my SSD last week when plugged it into the back USB port of my OPPO.
If I ever attempt to touch anything to do with my components I always ground myself first by touching my all steel rack and there's usually a little electrostatic discharge when I do. This time, I happened to forget to touch the rack and when I plugged in the USB cable, I saw a nice little blue spark between the chassis and the USB plug. SSD is toast.
Thankfully, the OPPO is fine. For now I'm back to my 128GB USB stick but I had only backed up half of the music that I lost.
Always ground yourself and always backup your music somewhere. This was the first time I've ever damaged something via ESD.
Sorry to hear about your SSD stehno. I threw a tube/hybrid preamp into protection once with static electricity. Wouldn't play untill the next day. Was ready to send it in for repair. Luckily I tried it one more time before sdnding it off. Friend popped the fuse on his Linn Sondek turntable once with static electricity.
You didn't notice a big difference in sound so I will keep using the HDD. Have about .5tb of music files. Have plenty of backups. Learned this with photography.
thanks
Thanks. In that brief period of time I cannot say that I detected any difference.
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