Is the Monarchy DIP effective?

Jedinite - The jitter measurements for another Oppo player (the DV970H) using SPDIF were multiples higher than other budget DVD players according to measurements taken in 1 2007 generally-positive Stereophile review by Wes Phillips. I would look for BDP 83 measurements but that suggests that a DIP would help with your model.

I just tried the Monarchy 48/96 with my Squeezebox Touch and I just sent it back.
I found no benefit using it.

Bradz,

Ozzy needs to qualify his answer as he did not do the job correctly: What Ozzy bought & tried out in his system was the Monarchy DIP 48/96 Upsampler unit. This unit's main job is async rate conversion with jitter reduction I would say as a #2 job.
Monarchy used to make another unit called the DIP 24/96, whose main job was jitter reduction. it did NOT upsample. IMHO & being a DIP 24/96 owner, I would say that the DIP 24/96 is much better at jitter reduction.
In fact, Monarchy used to recommend that people use BOTH the DIP 24/96 AND the DIP 48/96 in that order between the transport & the DAC for best results in jitter reduction. The fact that the DIP 24/96 was put 1st in line indicated its ability to deal w/ jitter better than the DIP 48/96 Upsampler. Unfortunately, the DIP 24/96 has been discontinued.
However, all is not lost: go to Monarchy Audio's website:
http://www.monarchyaudio.com/
On the left side, click on "DIP".
Scroll down & take a look at the "DIP CLassic" - you can read its specs. This little unit's main job is jitter reduction & it will accept all sampling freq between 32KHz & 96KHz so your Sony DVD7700 playing redbook CD should work just fine. I don't think that it decodes DVDs - Monarchy says that.

Ozzy: if you want to give it another shot, try the Monarch DIP Classic. It might work better. You probably will get the most bang for your buck by buying both the DIP CLassic & the DIP 48/96 & putting the DIP 48/96 after the DIP Classic. OTOH, the jitter of the SB Touch might already be good enough, as I wrote in the other thread a couple days back.

Bombaywalla, to add another box plus digital cables and power cables is too much to spend for a maybe, iffy improvement.

12-17-10: Ozzy
Bombaywalla, to add another box plus digital cables and power cables is too much to spend for a maybe, iffy improvement.

understand....