Official OPPO BDP-105 Owner's Thread - Page 136

Originally Posted by JazzGuyy 

I am having a peculiar problem with my 105. If I haven't used it for a couple of days and load a disc, it will not detect the disc. If I unplug it briefly (seconds only) then it will detect the disc. If I use it again within a day there is no need to do this. I have a region-free mod but don't know if this has anything to do with it. Anyone else having a problem like this? I will probably contact Oppo about this.

Originally Posted by Brian-HD 

I was playing SACDs on my 105. It stopped and resumed with some clicks. The song resumed from the start with the same tract. It happened twice. Is this a known issue?

Originally Posted by ehlarson 

Well, the DAC itself isn't the question. It's the complete implementation of the entire digital to analog process including the DAC. My guess is that with pristine source material you will be able to hear small differences. The Onkyo is a relatively high end receiver after all. But the Oppo doesn't have all the different functions of a receiver so it's likely to have a much bigger concentration of effort in it's analog output stage, thereby resulting in a better sound quality.

If you are planning to run the output of the Oppo into the Onkyo I really think you are wasting your money buying the 105. The 103 is really what you should be looking at. The only real benefits of the 105 are features that you won't likely use if you are running the Oppo input into the Onkyo.

Originally Posted by Bob Pariseau 

If something happened in your system which caused an HDMI handshake retry then the track will start over. The track will also start over if you switch between PCM and DSD output on the fly or switch between stereo and 5.1 tracks.

In the case of a problem reading the disc, I'm pretty sure the player will skip forward, not backward, to recover, but I've not done enough testing with problem SACD discs to be sure of that.

If the problem recurs, and the items above are not involved, then get in touch with OPPO Tech Support.
--Bob

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson 

Of course, you don't but room correction is equally valid and useful in two channels. After all, the room's acoustics don't change with the number of channels.

Originally Posted by Bob Pariseau 

Do you have the player in a dusty environment? Dust settling on the laser lens can be blown off by the disc spinning. Also some discs are a bit out of whack in their construction (e.g., center hole slightly off center or the like) which can make disc loading a bit chancy. I.e., it may be the luck of the draw in your discs at work here rather than your suggestion that it is related to the player being left off a few days.

Anyway, it certainly doesn't hurt to get in touch with OPPO Tech Support. They can tell you what to keep an eye on in terms of clean discs and placing them properly in the tray, and if your player is having disc read problems, then of course they'll take care of it under warranty.
--Bob

Originally Posted by JazzGuyy 

I've only had the player a few weeks so I doubt if dust is the problem. It's never been a problem for my other Oppo players. I'm working with Oppo on the problem but it may take a while to solve since it is dependent on the player being off for some period of time. If I watch or listen to something on it one night and then do the same the next night, there is no problem. It's when 2 or 3 days go by without using it (though it is in standby with Quick Start turned on in the settings) that it refuses to recognize a disc being inserted until I unplug the player briefly and then plug it back in.

Originally Posted by Bob Pariseau 

Quick Start keeps certain functions of the player live while it is OFF. The one that comes to mind for being off more than a day or so is networking, because your router likely grants the player a "lease" that expires after a day or so, meaning the networking needs to acquire a new one from the router while it is still "off". There may be a problem with how your router handles that. When you pull the plug, the networking starts out afresh with your router. The older OPPO players don't have Quick Start, so any such issue with the router would not have been evident.

So a couple things to try. Disconnect networking (both Wifi and Ethernet), and also the Roku Streaming Stick if you have it, before turning off the player, and see if the problem goes away the next time you power up after such a delay.

If that seems to fix it, then go back to leaving the networking connected but switch to Energy Efficient power cycles, which will work like unplugging the player. If the problem remains fixed that way then you might want to check for a firmware update for your router.

I'm surmising either that you have BD-Live enabled and the discs you are trying want to go out on the network as they load, or the player is getting stuck during the Quick Start power up and disc loading sequence because networking is confused.

There are really very few other things that might cause a problem with the player powered down for a couple days but NEVER cause a problem with the player powered down only overnight. For example, any thermal or mechanical effects are going to happen in just a few hours after the player is turned off.
--bob

Originally Posted by rblum 

Are you basing the last comment on the supposition that the the Oppo to Onkyo connection would be digital? If the Oppo to Onkyo was analog, would your comment change? I ask as I'm thinking about an Oppo analog to my Onkyo TX-NR809. What would you think about that?

Originally Posted by ehlarson 

Since this receiver has HDMI and room correction I think that an analog connection would be inferior to a digital connection. You will likely end up giving up some of the features you bought the Onkyo for, like room correction, or you will end up redigitizing the Oppo output and then converting it back to analog.

Neither of these choices will be an improvement over just feeding digital to the Onkyo.

Thus my recommendation is for you to save several hundred dollars and get the BDP-103.

Originally Posted by fotonomad 

Can someone tell me which USB port on the Oppo 105 is the asynchronous one - and explain what particular advantage / disadvantage that has over the other USB ports?
Also, I've loaded some photos on to a USB thumb drive and they are displayed fine - but each time I reinsert this drive to show the photos, a growing number of "phantom photos" - icons that indicate photos but have no content - must be scrolled past to find the actual, "live" folders. Since this is a slide show with music, it's a major hassle to scroll past all of these empty photo icons, trying to time the images to match the "soundtrack" I've chosen. These empty icons do not appear on the thumb drive when viewed on my Apple desktop computer. It seems the Oppo is building its own internal memory of all previous slide shows.
Any ideas on how to erase / delete these empty photo icons?

Originally Posted by speedytobey 

can't play pearl harbor, it kept pausing. ant one with same problem?

Originally Posted by Bob Pariseau 

If something happened in your system which caused an HDMI handshake retry then the track will start over. The track will also start over if you switch between PCM and DSD output on the fly or switch between stereo and 5.1 tracks.

In the case of a problem reading the disc, I'm pretty sure the player will skip forward, not backward, to recover, but I've not done enough testing with problem SACD discs to be sure of that.

If the problem recurs, and the items above are not involved, then get in touch with OPPO Tech Support.
--Bob

Originally Posted by ehlarson 

Since this receiver has HDMI and room correction I think that an analog connection would be inferior to a digital connection. You will likely end up giving up some of the features you bought the Onkyo for, like room correction, or you will end up redigitizing the Oppo output and then converting it back to analog.

Neither of these choices will be an improvement over just feeding digital to the Onkyo.

Thus my recommendation is for you to save several hundred dollars and get the BDP-103.

Originally Posted by Bob Pariseau 

The Mac itself creates secondary files (the name starts with a ".") for each file on the stick to hold file information the Mac records about the file that the non-Mac style file system formatting of the stick won't otherwise allow. There are utilities you can use on the Mac to strip these files from any folder on your USB stick so they don't get in the way when used in a non-Mac environment such was the OPPO player.

The "special" USB input -- the Asynchronous USB DAC Input -- is the square shaped socket near the middle or the back panel of the 105. The "normal" USB Inputs are the thin rectangular shaped sockets found on the front and back.

The "normal" USB sockets are used to attach things like a hard drive or a USB keyboard or the OPPO-provided Wifi networking stick. I.e., they are for USB accessory attachment. A hard drive attached this way can be browsed using the media file browsing in the OPPO so you can select and play files.

The Asynchronous USB DAC Input is very different. The easiest way to think of it is it's the way you attach a computer to the OPPO so that the OPPO will act in lieu of the normal sound card and speakers built into the computer. In the computer you select that you want to use this connection for audio output instead of the normal computer speakers. Whatever application you use to play audio on the computer will then send stereo digital audio (up to 2.0 LPCM 192KHz 24-bit) to the OPPO which gets passed *DIRECTLY* to the DACS of the OPPO for driving its Analog outputs (bypassing all audio processing except for Analog output Volume control). It will also be presented on the Digital audio outputs of the OPPO -- i.e., as HDMI stereo LPCM output.
--Bob

Originally Posted by fotonomad 

Many thanks for the clear and detailed explanations. Can you tell me which utility and procedure I'd use on my MAC to strip all those "phantom folders" off the USB stick?

Originally Posted by rblum OPPO ....XT32 room correction.......

Originally Posted by wse 

OPPO with
 XT32 room correction, yes please. Maybe the next generation but I doubt it!

Originally Posted by jimshowalter 

Please not. The whole point of the 105 is to fiddle with the signal as little as possible, and to reproduce the analog signal as perfectly as possible.

Originally Posted by HowardV 

+1

I can't believe so many people like room correction. To me, this is the biggest hype sold by the industry to get people to buy new equipment. It's equalization (ok, call it fancy equalization)- something the high-end community has always frowned upon. Some simple room treatments can work miracles without having some machine alter the frequencies.

Originally Posted by Paul Kile 

That's because the OPPO recognized how bad that movie is. Try playing "Tora Tora Tora" instead...:[/quote


lol

Originally Posted by vlach 

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

Originally Posted by Todd68 

I was thinking of trying it to prove to myself the truth. I quit using the older type equalizers 20 years ago. They seemed to do more harm than good.

Originally Posted by Todd68 

I never tried it, but been advised that using an AVR with room correction is better choice than my high-end preamp and mono blocks. Seems only people at this forum recommends this . I was thinking of trying it to prove to myself the truth. I quit using the older type equalizers 20 years ago. They seemed to do more harm than good.

Originally Posted by audiofan1 

I 'm one who can hear the difference between DSD and PCM and prefer the latter for critical listening.

Originally Posted by Kal Rubinson 

Times have changed and so have EQs.  Try it.