Official OPPO BDP-95 Owner's Thread - Page 269

This really isn't the thread to be discussing all your options in depth - there's a receiver / preamp-processor thread that's better suited for it. But IMO, the Denon 4311 would be a pretty big step up over your current Denon 3310 and Audyssey typically makes a big difference in sound quality unless your room happens to be acoustically perfect. If you haven't tried Audyssey on your 3310, give it a try (it won't cost you anything other than a little time to run through the calibration process) - that might make a big enough difference that you'd be happy sticking with what you've got for a while longer (keep in mind that the Audyssey XT32 in the 4311 is a big improvement). Did you mean RSP-1572 (I can't find a RSX-1572)? In any event, Rotel only seems to do parametric EQ, which isn't very useful unless it has a ton of filters and is used in conjunction with measuring equipment (to get a useful result, you would most certainly need to hire a professional). If you hate the thought of using room correction, Rotel makes quality stuff but I haven't auditioned any of their gear in years.

Yeap you not be wrong about this not The thread but my main idea is get a better source like The oppo is, but if this not be better dac instead mid end avr or processor maybe thats is not a good idea.

I will apologize in advance for this as it seemed to me such a basic issue when I was setting up my new BDP-95, but I just can't find a good solution in either the Oppo manual or (so far) on this forum. I did look pretty hard through the posts but I'm obviously missing something, so here goes..

I want to output 5 channel sound to the 95 to a Sony STR 5300ES with HDMI for movies. And also run stereo sound to a separate Plinius stereo integrated amp for music. I'd be using completely separate speaker systems for the two purposes. I thought on perusing the manual that it would be pretty basic as it says...

"if you would like to connect a dedicated stereo audio system in addition to the surround audio system which is already connected to the HDMI, coaxial or optical output, you can connect the dedicated stereo audio system to the STEREO AUDIO OUT terminals of the player"

But how do I choose the appropriate output as it were (HDMI or RCA) for the different purposes? What am I missing here? Feel free to point me to a post that covers this one as I can't imagine I'm the first user to struggle with this.

It's not that the DAC's in the BDP-95 aren't excellent - they are. It's more a question about balancing your system.

With your current AVR, it's doubtful that you'll be able to truly appreciate what the Oppo's analog outputs offer, so your money is probably better spent elsewhere at this time. Of course, you can try the BDP-95 and return it within 30 days if you aren't happy with it in your system - you'll just be out the cost of shipping.

Right now, you've got excellent speakers, a decent AVR, and a reasonably low-end Bluray player. You might assume the Bluray player is the weak link in your system, but if you're using HDMI for audio, it really isn't - the AVR becomes your limiting factor. Replacing the AVR (either with a better AVR or with a preamp/processor and separate amp(s)) should give you the most meaningful upgrade to your system and any other sources you use in the system will also benefit from that upgrade. Depending on what you replace your AVR with, the BDP-95 still might not make sense - if you decide to use room correction, it would make sense to continue using HDMI for audio, in which case save $500 and get a BDP-93 instead of the BDP-95.

I'm just setting up my newly acquired BDP-95 with a newly acquired Arcam AVP888/P777 setup. I just have an HDMI cable between the BDP-95 and the AVP888.

The BDP-95 plays CDs and BD just fine, but when I tried to play the Beatles DVD-Audio or even a "Welcome to DVD-Audio" demo disk, what I hear is just a burst of quasi-white-noise -- which I suspect is a decoder failure (I'm hearing the digital data, so to speak). Curiously this white noise continues even after I eject the disk -- it's as though the Arcam has become confused. The white noise continues until I load a BD, a DVD, or a CD -- at which point the white noise stops and the audio plays normally.

When I load a DVD-A, the BDP95 detects that it's a DVD-A, displays the DVD-A menu on the video output but cannot apparently decode the audio. The BDP-95 is connected to the Internet so I recently did the firmware update a week or so ago (sorry, I don't remember what the version number is).

Is there something that I'm missing? Do I need to change the default settings of the BDP-95 so it can handle DVD-A or could it be that I have a problem with the BDP-95?

Any help, wisdom, or rational suggestions much appreciated!
Regards
Andy

Andy,

The spec sheet http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-bdp-95/ says under DVD-Audio that it supports both stereo and multichannel high resolution audio programs. Try hooking up either stereo cables or multichannel cables and see if that works.

Guys, any update on an Ipad app for the Oppo players ? Really want to be able to control it with my Onkyo receiver.

The best option!. "Low-tech" hitting the off switch on one amp or the other is just fine by me, it beats drilling down in the setup menus... :-)
Many thanks
John

Start by doing a simple reset of the player:

1) Remove any disc.

2) In Setup, jot down your personal settings.

3) In Setup > Device Setup, erase Persistent Storage. Then Reset Factory Defaults. When the Easy Setup Wizard finishes, power down the player.

4) Pull the power plug for about 10 seconds

5) Power up and re-enter your personal settings. NOTE: Setup > Playback Setup > DVD-Audio Mode should be set to DVD-Audio. Your Video output Resolution should be set to 720p or higher (necessary to enable high bit rate audio over HDMI). Power down the player one more time (settings are saved during the power down cycle).

6) Power up and try your DVD-Audio disc again.

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If the problem remains, try using the analog outputs of the Oppo. To test this you need only hook up the Left Front / Right Front outputs to any analog stereo input pair in your AVR. If the problem is in how the Oppo processes the DVD-Audio disc it will show on just a simple connection like that.

If the stereo Analog audio works, that says the problem is either in the HDMI connection to your AVR or a bug in the AVR itself when presented with high bit rate audio over HDMI. As a workaround for now, consider hooking up the full set of multi-channel Analog audio jacks, and then give Oppo tech support a call and they'll help walk you through diagnosing the HDMI issue.

Do you have any other content your can play with higher bit rate audio? Perhaps an SACD disc, or one of the Blu-ray music discs with 92KHz or 192KHz audio tracks on it?
--Bob

anyone able to play flac files without any pauses between tracks? thnx

I've played plenty of DVD-A titles on my 95 with no issue. I would get hold of Oppo's technical support, they are one of the best in the business and I'm sure they'll get this resolved for you.

The architecture of the player does not support buffering across file boundaries for playback like this. You would need to create one large file.
--Bon

As Bob mentioned, the workaround is to create a full-disc FLAC file. Unfortunately, with this method you don't get navigation control or track info, etc. The Oppo doesn't recognize cuesheets stored on an attached HDD so that doesn't help. Foobar will play from a cuesheet when streaming to the Oppo, but unfortunately, the Oppo still introduces a pause between tracks.

For DVD-A's, instead of ripping FLAC's, you can rip an ISO and and get gapless playback, assuming your Oppo still has ISO support. If you have a lot of DVD-A's as I do, it's one of the major benefits of maintaining ISO playback.

I prefer to play hard media or from a usb drive direct from FLAC thru the oppo. The lack of buffering reduces the significance of the player being able to play FLAC files tremendously. I have a couple thousand concerts and those pauses really take away from the experience of these special historical documents... Its not practical to rip them all to wave but can play thru media monkey for example but wouldnt use the oppo then. Hopefuly that is something to look out for in the future and is part of the evolutionary process. That would be sick. thanks!

Can anyone can give me feedback on whether anybody has ever used the Picture Adjustment feature of the Oppo 93/95 when calibrating their Oppo or TV (I have a Panasonic 60ST30), or found a need to use this feature?

I never used it for Blu-rays. The only time I use it is for Netflix or on my old DVD collection of certain TV series.

hi, everyone
i tried to play some music and video files in my network storage with my oppo95, but it can't find that Dlink DNS320, neither the shared files in my desktop. but it can find my lab top.
anyone have any idea?

Yup! just last week I was able to use a 2.4 gamma instead of 2.2, just by using the contrast enhancement by +1 with my Mitsubishi 73738 dlp It couldn't do that without it no matter what I tried I consider it the icing on the cake for my shadow detail, blacks and contrast check page 268 for details!

I believe the AV888 only accepts DVD-A & SACD via analogue inputs. It has no decoding chip for HDMI input.

Welcome to AVSForum.

You need a DLNA server on your network. See the FAQ: What is DLNA?

-Bill

DVD-A is output on HDMI as LPCM. If the AVR accepts high bandwidth multi-channel HDMI LPCM (as it must do for proper Blu-ray playback as well), that's all you need for DVD-A.
--Bob

Not true. SACD and DVD-A are output as PCM over HDMI and the AV888 handles that up to 96kHz.

I used multi-channel analogy out to connect the Oppo-95 to Rotel RSP-1570. Then I went to the speaker setup menu and found the test tone button is greyed out. Do I miss anything? Do I have to disable the HDMI audio out? The manual says that the test tone is only available via analogy multi-channel output.

Second thing is that I found the surrounding sound level decode by Oppo via analogy output is much higher than the level decoded by Rotel-1570 via HDMI. The difference is more than 6db. I do like the surround sound efffect with Oppo's level. However I am not sure if it is the right one.

When using the multi-channel input via the Rotel, the Rotel will only do volumn control and nothing else. So there is no speaker level adjustment.

I do find the suuround level decoded by Rotel-1570 does not produce good surrounding sound effect if I strickly match the level from all the speaker to be the same @75db using the test tone from the Rotel 1570.

Anybody has similar experience or any advise about how to proceed?

Thanks in advance.

I'm no Oppo guru, but something tells me they will hold that for next generation products.

Thanks. I power on the unit with no disk. The test tone button is ok. Here is what I found. The Oppo outputs the rear surround sound about 8db more than the front and the center channel. I did this test with the analogy mutil-channel connection between the Oppo-95 and Rotel RSP-1570. The effect is overwhelming. If I use HDMI connection, then the levels match automatically among all the speakers but the surrounding sound effect is pretty week. In the end I tune down the Oppo speaker configuration by 4db for the rear and tune up the Rotel by 4db. Now when I use the analogy multi-channel connection, Rotel bypasses all the digital process. If I use the HDMI connection, Oppo will do only the decoding to LPCM and the Rotel will do the speaker adjustment. The end effect is the same that I get 4bd gain on the rear and the effect is good.

Now here is the new problem, if I play multi-channel Bluray music, the rear speaker levels are too high and it sounds unbalanced. It only sounds right if I match all the speakers level using analogy or HDMI connection.

Any advises? Thanks!

Bill

I got it, thanks a lot!

Has anyone compared a stock 95 to a modified one (e.g., modified by Modwright, Exemplar, EVS...)? For two-channel audio only, that is.

Thanks

No.
Butt I own a MWI mod'ED 95.
If anyone chimes in, be super critical of the evaluation.
Really! Super critical!!
Cause the 95 needs a ton of hrs on it
&
MWI Mod is sensitive too which tubes (brought a doz pr & I'm buying more/as well as four recifirer valves), power cords (even switching between the pc's on the 95 & the PS 9.0 makes a diff), and because the 95 has a ton of detail (some would say it sounds 'dry' because of that) output cables will come into play as well.
Ugh!
If your going digital out, remember, just get a 93 for half the price.

Now that I've tweakED mine & tweakED mine... sonic marvel!
And Dan is working on a digital input as we speak (so even "TV" will sound killer ).
Enjoy.