Official OPPO BDP-105 Owner's Thread - Page 134

I have dual subwoofers,

My setup has been cleared with the speaker manufacturer (indeed it is one of their recommended configurations).

L, R, center, sub, and surround RCA out of Oppo and into multichannel preamp.

L and R RCA out of preamp, Y'd.

One Y'd L and R RCA pair to power amp.

Other Y'd L and R RCA pair to subwoofers.

L and R power amp output through speaker cables to L and R front speakers.

LFE out of preamp, Y'd to subwoofers.

The L and R front speakers get full-range from the power amp.

The subs get L and R full-range, and LFE, from the preamp.

This arrangement avoids running the L and R to the subwoofers through two power amps (the subwoofers have their own power amps). This arrangement also keeps stereo and LFE completely separate.

Your mileage may vary, but this has worked really well for me.

 I also want Oppo to be more Apple friendly

Well, Jim, I was planning on using the Oppo as my preamp, connecting directly to my meridian multi-channel
power amp. This would also avoid running the L and R to the subwoofers through two power amps.

From Oppo technical support:

At this time we do not display any bit rate or frequency information when playing back user generated media. We are looking into possibly adding this feature through a future firmware release.

Best Regards,

Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc.

Sorry to hear that. For what its worth where in the process are you having the issue?

The same setup will work. Just remove preamp from the description I gave.

The biggest problem with your proposed setup is that you'll completely lose LFE content as there's no way to redirect the .1 content to your other speakers.

Um, no.

The LFE is connected to the subwoofers.

The full-range L and R is connected to the L and R front full-range speakers, and to the subwoofers.

The full-range center and surrounds are connected to the full-range center speaker and full-range surround speakers, respectively.

Why do you say I will lose LFE content when there is a direct LFE connection from the preamp to the subwoofers' LFE inputs?

Indeed. It is a walled garden. The AOL of the 21st century. I keep hoping people will wake up and realize there are open-source formats, open-source platforms, etc.

It depends on your subwoofer.
The method above Y'ed the LFE to both subwoofers which works for subs like my Velodyne and Grotto which accept L, R, and LFE and mix, stir, and shake.

- Rich

Jim, I was responding to mcheek's proposed configuration, not yours which is why I quoted his post . His proposed configuration doesn't use the Oppo SW output at all, which will result in the LFE signal being completely discarded. I haven't seen anything in his follow-up messages to suggest that he's changed his mind about this.

Yes, Jim's configuration doesn't discard the LFE, but I thought I quoted mcheek . I'm pretty sure that Jim, you, and i more or less agree...

Sorry, I missed that.
Are you going to give that a go?

- Rich

Vincent SV236MKII

 

Cool tubes and digital 

Nope, I'm happy with my configuration as it is.

Oh, duh. Sorry!

What are the sensitivities of the headphones. A sensitive phone with high impedance can be as easy to drive as a low-sensitivity phone with low impedance.

So basically substituting Oppo for preamp, I would run 3 y splitters out of the Oppo: 1 from the L dedicated stereo out and run it to the L input on the power amp and L input on left subwoofer; 1 from the R dedicated stereo out and run it to the R input on the power amp and R input on right subwoofer: and 1 from the SW out to the LFE input of both subs. Is that correct? Since none of my speakers are truly full range, would the settings in the Oppo be: all speakers to small, sub on, and crossover appropriate to my speakers? Thanks for your help BTW; this bass management stuff is really confusing to me.

If the FL/FR speakers are set to large and the SW is set to off and the Stereo Signal is set to Front Left/Right then the .1 LFE information is sent to the FL and FR speakers. Here is a link to a test file: http://www.jensign.com/bdp95/7dot1voiced/

Using the test file you can also verify that the LFE info is not presented to the FL/FR if you set the Stereo Signal to Down-mixed Stereo.

I am using my 105 only for audio, and I don’t have a video screen in the vicinity to connect and look at. Yesterday, when I attempted to play a CD, “Netflix” appeared on the 105’s screen; and the CD would not play. I tried a few buttons, but had no luck. This happened twice. Finally, I turned the 105 off, and then back on. That fixed the problem, but I’m wondering how to prevent it from happening again. If it does, I can move the player to my TV temporarily, to see what’s happening (visually), but that’s going to be a major pain in the neck.

Thanks very much!
John

I am wondering if anyone has used the 105 to do the D/A conversion from their cable box to their amplifier. And if that improved the sound significantly.

Thanks very much!
John

Oppo will release a new software update in the next two weeks with new features can't wait :)

 

If I could plug in my iPad or iPod classic to use the Oppo DACs then I will consider seriously upgrading to the BDP-105 until then I will keep my BDP-95

Hi John, if you insert a disc with default settings, it should play automatically--as long as you don't hit a direction button and enter in sequence. As a fail safe, pressing "Home" on the remote, followed by "enter" ( after a couple seconds wait) will always play the disc in the tray.

Looking at what you are asking for the 95 in your signature, you might be hangin on to it for a long, long time. $950 (USD) is only 5% less than the asking price new. Just sayin......

Are you sure you really wanna sell that player?!!!
Edited by Torqdog - 3/4/13 at 5:38pm

 

Good point dropped the price now $699

You can plug in your iPad using the optional USB camera kit, however that doesn't work for iPods.

Oh. I didn't realize your speakers are not full-range. For some reason I thought they were.

Probably not going to happen. With the limits and issues associated with using idevices it just makes more sense to connect your hard drive with the same music to the OPPO.

Apple requires a special chip and licensing in order to pull digital music off the ipod, which is why you don't see it too much. I think it makes sense for companies to just stay away from it since the connector changes every few years.

But there's no point in having this feature on a component anyway when you can just buy something like the iPure doc and get the digital signal from that - or just use a hard drive. Or DLNA or....

I assume using a Wadia iTransport into the 105's coaxial digital input would do the trick. The Wadia gets at the music in its digital form, bypassing the iPod's internal DAC and analog stage.

Hi folks,
I'm currently using Split A/V with my HDMI outputs, video going direct to my Viera VT50 TV and audio going to my Pioneer Elite VSX-94TX receiver. Yesterday I tried playing some MP3s off an SD card through the front USB port. I was pleased to see the unit instantly recognized the card and displayed a list of songs on my TV. I then toggled my receiver to multichannel analog input, and received the audio output at my front speakers, but lost the video display. I read earlier on this thread that you need 2 HDMI handshakes to enable the Split A/V function, therefore when I set my receiver to multichannel input it must disable the HDMI audio output, which therefore kills the HDMI video output as well.

Two questions: a) Is my logic correct? and b) how do I get video display along with multichannel output? If the answer to b is to tell the OPPO to toggle to the dual HDMI output, then question c) is: are there discrete remote commands for Split A/V and Dual HDMI? I want the ability to program such a switch into my remote, so I can switch between HDMI and multichannel on the fly, retaining video output for each. I don't want to crawl into the setup screen to have to toggle between the two HDMI setups.

I know I should be listening to multichannel for all sources, but I think my system might need some tweaks to optimize the multichannel path. As of now, the HDMI output of my MP3s sounds pretty punchy with a good amount of bass response (my front speakers are Def Tech towers set to Large and they include built-in subs). When I switch to multichannel, I gain a lot of clarity, but lose much of the bass and the voices are very sibilant. Any ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Paul