Audio improvement for OPPO 205


Is audio quality improvement for the Oppo 205/D potentially significant assuming there's no changes to the power supply?
ptss
The 9038 chip seems primarily a 'features' upgrade to enhance flexibility for designers. They don't stress improved sound quality..
ok, well maybe they'll bore some holes in the top and stick some tubes thru them...
As ptss states, all you guys chasing the latest digital chipsets might consider that it is the power supplies in the Oppos, Marantz. Etc players that are holding back the sonics. Adding an Audio Magic Gen Zx clock and a Bybee DC power supply rail to your existing players will have these not-yet-released Mega-MIP players running for cover unless Oppo’s new one sufficiently addresses the power supply shortfalls of the 105.

There are lots of things that "improve" the sound of a player.  The power supply has many parts.  The Audio Magic thang is not a clock, by the way.  It is a power filter and so is the Bybee thang.  I have used both.  I do like the Audio Magic thang.  However, doing these things alone will bring very little change to a stock player.  You really need to address the player as a whole: output stage, clocking, power supply to output stage, power supply to clock, power supply to DAC, raw DC supply, raw AC supply, damping, wires, jacks, etc. etc.  Have been modding players and DACs for over 30 years.  There are no shortcuts.

The rumor is that the new ESS DACs do indeed sound better, so I would imagine the stock 205 sounding a little better than a stock 105 (if it indeed has a 9038 DAC in it)......but without mods it will just be nice, nothing special.  Yes, I will be modding all the new Oppos.

I cannot argue with any of your points, ricevs, nor do your points argue with mine, excepting possibly someone misconstruing your "Silly Boy" disposition toward my post as condescension toward two SOTA upgrades that are unanimously accepted by estabished modders and their customers for providing significant audible improvement.

Why that you post is if modding a player being a superior path is a source of contention with me, I am baffled. This was exactly my point. As you say, only after attacking the weaknesses in the power section will the improved dac make more than a small incemental difference in sound quality.

Check my Virtual System page if you have further doubts about my experience with and preference for modded digital sources. "I'm sure you will be more than satisfied", as Joe Pesci once said in My Cousin Vinny.

Best to you ricevs,
Dave