Official OPPO BDP-95 Owner's Thread - Page 128

[quote=USAFChief;20447125]
Good deal Martin! Bravo Zulu, lol

Be careful with the alcohol as these solvents can contain water. You should use Caig products which are very inexpensive and specifically designed for use with electrical equipment.

http://store.caig.com/s.nl/ctype.KB/...1977/KB.215/.f

[quote=audiofan1;20447232]
Martin is going to become a believer! lol

Amazing. I'll stick with my overpriced BDP-83 and buy a BDP-93 for my main room.

Yes, the DX-5 is based on the Oppo 83. The Oppo 95 is an excellent player and can compete against players in the $3-5K range.

[quote=audiofan1;20447232]

Probably the opposite affect of alcohol applied inappropriately as far as PQ...AQ is a different story

To be honest, I'm highly skeptical to say the least, especially regarding PQ improvement. In the old analog TV/tube days, absolutely, but not sure good clean power can change a digital signature...it's either good, bad, or in-between (bad pixels). Currently I have healthy pixels. I picked this up opened/unused for $250 and thought WTH at that price.

Hey, I have two quick questions I hope some one is willing to help me out with.

1) I've been using an Arcam FMJ DV139 DVD/CD player with B&W 805 speakers and a Pioneer SC37 Receiver. I've enjoyed the Arcam but it's time to change.
My question is, will the Oppo 95 provide better 2 channel as well as multi-channel sound than the Arcam FMJ? Also, are there any other Blu Ray players I should be considering for top quality two channel and multi channel sound? Perhaps Arcams Bdp 1000 or some Denon or Pioneer model? If you can help me out, i'd really appreciate it. Thanks guys!

[quote=USAFChief;20447675]
Benifits I noticed right of the bat on the video
1. deeper blacks
2. excellent saturation on color
3. less grain
4. more dimensional image

Audio benifits
1. talk about perceiving! It seemed as though dynamics got a boost, possibly due to a lower noise floor.
2.less grain in the highs
3.silence is golden
4. is not current limiting

I'm very interested in your findings, as I have come to believe good clean power is the foundation on which good audio stands. And this will be a good way for you to see and hear what good PC's can do as well, Now it will be as simple as changing the one from your Quintet with one's you already have in your gear. The stock is good for know but an 10 or 8awg cord will do wonders! keep us posted

Hi, I replaced a Denon 5900 and a Pioneer 51fd with the 95, for 2 channel I use to use the Denon as a transport to feed my Anthem avm20 via an Kimber Illuminations D60 cable. For sacd playback I used the Denon and of course the Pioneer for Bluray. The 95 in my setup had a lot to replace and it exceeded my expectations by milestones in every area Definitely should be at the top of your list.

Thanks man, I appreciate it! I'd love to hear some more people chime in, here please.

Research this tread ,there's a lot of great info!

[quote=audiofan1;20447779]
Just arrived as advertised a couple of hours ago! Not sure I'll get a chance to hook up till this weekend (hard to access equipment), but I'll be happy to share my thoughts...of course, only after the 500 hr burn in!

[quote=USAFChief;20447840]
lucky for you Chief my notes say 250 to 325 hrs for the Quintet! I'll stay tunned and good luck

I have both a PS Audio Duet and a Panamax 5100EX in my system and I do not see the video or hear the audio improvements mentioned above. The audio improvements that you speak of hearing are something that you personally hear and are not measurable. But the video improvements you mention should be easliy measurable. Did you calibrate your display before installing the power conditioner? If you did and if you documented those numbers it should be easy to show the marked improvements you claim.

I would be very interested in seeing those numbers and that would back up your claims. If not then I think it is again the placebo effect that one sees or hears when adding equipment to ones system.

Also could you explain what components within the Quintet are improved with 250-325 hours of use? With all these added components to your system how do you differentiate which ones are actually improving?

Bill

I see exactly those benefits and hear the same thing when I added the PS Audio PowerPlant Premier to my system. Honestly, I never thought I would see any difference, but it was obvious from first minute. I would describe it as the entire picture became "calmer", just nice and relaxed.

The audio quality did go up substantially, especially in quite passages you can make out details that I never heard before.

Although I did reply to audiofan1's which I shouldn't have as it just furthered the discussion of power conditioners in this thread. I really feel the discussion of power conditioners and their effects should be discussed in another thread. Further discussion will only bog down this thread IMO.

Bill

Does anyone here have some sort of best-guess snapshot of what the most likely features the next OPPO model will have (which I insist must be called the "BDP-99" aka Wayne Gretsky model .. aka the "OPPO Canadian" ? larger LCD display with more functionality (like menu navigation, display of volume settings etc), built-in audiophile headphone amp, digital (SPDIF or otherwise) input?

Why is this, when you look at speaker placement for SACD, rear speakers are recommended not side?

Or do most just use 2 channel SACD instead of multi?

Even the best guess would be a poor guess.

-Bill

For SACD, the Surround speakers should be at or very slightly above seated ear level, positioned at about 110 degrees off the centerline, aimed at MLP and be of the direct firing type. There is no "rear" speaker for MC music.

For HT, Surrounds should be above ear level about 1-2'. Positioning and types vary, but commonly dipoles positioned from 100-120 degrees off the centerline are used. Back Surround(s) (6.1 or 7.1) go on the back wall and are only used in conjunction with Surrounds. In that case the surrounds should be positioned closer to 90 degrees.

This is an article on the topic, as is this.

I do not want to side track this thread any longer than I should...
Is there a specific forum i.e. software etc. that I can pose my questions on this subject (FLAC)?
Or actually all I want to know is how to convert from my CD collections to FLAC format (using window 7) then I can either burn (to a disc) or store it in an external HDD where it can be played by a 95 player later on.

Sorry, yes I new SACD rear speakers are set to 110 degrees 'does this not make them behind you?', however the Oppo is a dual purpose unit, so it would have been nice to be able to select the 'surround' speakers you wished to use. I have my 'rears' at more or less 110 degrees, yet my 'sides' are at my 'side', yet the Oppo uses these for SACD

http://www.timefordvd.com/ref/ITU.shtml

It's a pretty straightforward process in any of the available programs. Just load the files and convert. You can discuss here in the audio theory or 2-ch forums. Most programs also allow you to set meta-data tags on FLAC files for sorting and display in the various playback methods. Sorting by folder is good for HDDs.

ahhh COME ON! just give it a shot ... who cares if it's a "poor guess"! I won't judge anyone for providing a "poor guess" .. sheeee

There is no better choice than Exact Audio Copy (at least for extracting [securely and bit-perfectly] from CD). It can also then convert from WAV to FLAC, as can other excellent tools such as Trader's Little Helper and FLAC Frontend (which comes with FLAC).

All the programs I mentioned are free. Exact Audio Copy is not easy to configure properly--google a guide to doing so.

I find a huge difference between various source material in the amount and quality of bass. I use a setup disc that sweeps bass frequencies and watch the meter for big dips/bumps that indocate room modes and ignore those. BTW I also use the disc to tweak sub location so as to get reasonably flat response from the sub.
AFter being setup if I get a disc that's way off on bass (either way) I make temporary adjustments to accomodate the movie (I don't use the sub with music, my mains are fine and have tighter bass).
There is a site that calculates room modes for you after you fill in the dimensions out there somewhere but I can't remember where.

The closets I can offer is that the 95 gives better 2 ch than an arcam7se cd player. But not by a whole lot, but worth the upgrade IMO. But I don't buy the 95 competing with $2-3k cd players in 2ch. Maybe it can compete, but it will lose IMO.

Does anyone here use the 93 as a transport?
Or ideally to connect the 93 to an external DAC like mine which is a BelCanto DAC3.
And a/b the SQ between 93's DAC vs the external one?
I Googled but couldn't come up with such combo or close to it.

Wow. The 95 has been only been out for a couple of months and you're looking for a replacement? Tough crowd around here.

Hi, my name is Martin and I'm an Audioholic...problem is I'm not looking to get better.