Modding a Oppo 103

If Dan will modify your oppo 103 ? It will sound good. My 9000es he modified it sounds amazing. I was able to use it for 10 yrs. But He is expensive.

Modwright has been doing this for years. I have a UDP 205 of theirs that has a single tube auxiliary power supply and in the main unit Dan Wright added two tubes to the audio side of the unit; the video side, which apparently runs in parallel, was left untouched.

I had an Oppo 103 and then upgraded to a 205. I couldn't hear much or any difference in SQ so sold the 205 and still have the 103. So I doubt the mods would make much difference.

I did something similar to that with a ready made piece from a different make and it went smoothly with the install. I forget if there was a big enough of an improvement and it ran rather hot to the touch all the time so I took it out and put the old one back in. 

I just use the OPPO for movies anyway and really didn't concentrate on any sound improvements. 

All the best,
Nonoise

I used to have an Oppo 93 with Exemplar mods, it sounded very nice for the money. I believe it had the usual stuff like power supply upgrade, nicer opamps, all the regular mods that different companies did with Oppo players over the years. However I think it almost exclusively helped the analog outputs. Because I never noticed an improvement when using the 93 as a transport with external DAC. Granted I only ever tried coaxial digital out and not HDMI but one would think the same applies for both.

That Oppomod power supply is $380 so not the end of the world if you wanted to experiment. I just wouldn't do it expecting major improvements as you might be disappointed.