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Connecting a SB Touch into Oppo BDP-95?

Been looking over the BDP-95 manual, and it seems there is no way to get a digital signal from the Touch and into the Sabre DAC in the 95. Am I right? Do you know of any modder able to add a digital input?

I have been thinking of getting an external DAC to connect my Rotel player as transport as well as my Touch, but I'm thinking the BDP95 has a good DAC with excellent mod potential, with SACD and Blu-Ray as icing on that cake. If I could connect the Touch to it I think the 95 would be it.
lewinskih01
dchan88
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I have tried both USB and e-sata in the Oppo-95. I found the sound of e-sata more to my liking.
lewinskih01 OP
912 posts
 
Rwwear: I did read it, but don't see where they explain this. Maybe it's this, which I cannot comprehend: "although it unofficially provides DNLA Server-like Experimental Functions”. Looking at the Oppo manual the user interface didn't seem friendly or practical at all. Hence my question.

Dchan88: what do you use to browse over your music collection with the 95 and external HDD?
rwwear
2,901 posts
 
Yea, it does say experimental. So it could just need a firmware upgrade when available to address the situation. I have spoken to Oppo on the phone and they are very helpful in a small company sort of way.
dchan88
9 posts
 
Yes, you can brouse the esata harddisk contents from the TV output.

But 2 issues might be of concerned:

1) You need to update to the latest firmware version. With the original firmware, it will take more that a minute to detect the esata drive.

2) Even with the latest firmware, there is data transmission issue with the estat driver. When playing 192/24 flac file, sometime it chockes and causes the music to stop momentary. Situation is much better with 192/24 wav file. There is no issue with 96/24 flac. The above problems do not exist with USB interface, but the sound quality is not up to par.
sleepysurf
125 posts
 
I'm sorry to hear that Dan (Modwright) might NOT be offering the digital input option for the BDP-95, but not totally surprised. Given it's USB, eSATA, plus DLNA input options, the market for an S/PDIF input upgrade would probably be limited. Further, *IF* Oppo subsequently figures out a way to add DLNA Rendering capability (still a big question mark), it would obviate the need for S/PDIF altogether, as one could use J. River Media Center or dBPowerAmp Asset control for building playlists and controlling playback.

Of note, since installing the latest firmware beta, I've had few, if any, problems streaming 24/192 FLAC and WAV files via DLNA. It occasionally locks up on me, but probably self-induced, as I was scrolling through my NAS directory WHILE also streaming high-res tracks. Overall, I'm more and more impressed with the BDP-95 every day. After ~250 hrs of break-in, it's really sounding sweet!
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