Add I2s to Oppo players?

I’m really trying to help here, but A’gon keeps kicking out my responses so right now I’m beyond pissed off.  You should not be using optical connections to your Venus.  You should not be worrying about converting HDMI from your Oppo to anything.  Your priorities are all messed up and you need to totally rethink what you’re doing here.

My BrystonDAC3 has HDMI inputs and I output the Oppo 105 DSD from SACD into it

Denafrips told me not to do this, but I might try this, as I can do the same.

Thanks, I had been thinking about trying this.

Oppo seems to be geared toward HT, reading DVDs.  So 2 channel sound is probably a low priority.

I2S is mostly a fools errand in my opinion.

Is USB an option?

Maybe you just need a 2 channel CD transport.  My CD transport is 5x as costly as my HT DVD player.

Jerry

Carlsbad,

You mentioned "I2S is mostly a fools errand in my opinion."

Can you explain further? I have had experiences where I2S was the best connection (by far) in both my current BS Node to Iris to Pontus set up, and the Jay's CDT-2 MKIII to Pontus. I can also see that a well constructed streamer or CD transport topology will reduce the need for an I2S connection.....because they do such a good job with their other topologyies.

I am NOT trying to say anything negative, but just curious what your experience has been