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| Disappointment with Pass Labs - I'm looking for something else I had the XP-10 and now the XP-12. These preamps are superb and sound way above their price. I had the XA 30.5 for a few years and replaced it with a Bryston 3B cubed which paired beautifully as a class A/B amp with the Pass preamp. If anything, y... | |
| Bryston BDA-3 Got my BDA-3 DAC two weeks ago, driving it with my 2 1/2 year-old Oppo 105D that was fully modified by EVS [Ric Schultz]. I use a Nordost Blue Flare HDMI cable to connect the two. I play RBCD and SACD two-channel exclusively-no downloads.Setup wa... | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D $4750. for a tubed modified OPPO !! Wow! What all did he do for that price? I thought that Modwright was the primo tube -modified OPPO-105 with a separate tube power supply. | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D I've been experimenting with a bunch of BlackDiscus samples on my EVS OPPO-105D for the past few months and thought I'd pass my results on to those of you who have this player.Ric suggested a BD over the 2-channel DAC, but I didn't get any perceiv... | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D Suggest you get the full mods if you can.I'm sure you would hear another layer of improvement. My player was originally interconnected with XLR's.I made the shift from RCA's several years ago and immediately heard the difference. | |
| Is the Oppo-105 with Modwright modifications I considered TUC when I got my 105D, but I couldn't get a handle on precisely what they did. They sounded kind of vague with band-aid type mods versus gut changes by EVS. Ric explained exactly what he would do and it made sense to me at that time.... | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D I probably have more than 500 hours on my EVS Oppo-105D and found that its musicality has improved significantly.I had a friend over today who has critical listening skills and grudgingly gives praise.He was very impressed with the current sound v... | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D Mribob;Don't want to beat a dead horse, but if you still have the OPPO cover on, take it off and hear the improvement. Ric does all his testing and listening with the covers off. You can have a Lucite cover made to just sit on top. | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D If I understand this pdf correctly,it doesn't compare what happens when a 24- bit number from SACD is fed into the 32-bit Sabre DAC. | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D So at a volume setting of 50 when playing a SACD, is the resolution cut off at 16 bits ? | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D This raises a question re OPPO volume control. Is it modulating the analog output or is it operating in the digital domain ? | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D Heard from the master. Didn't realize that with my balanced IC's, I'm actually getting 2V output.I used a Placette passive controller for my previous 4V output player into a 1V sensitivity amp and still ran out of headroom on some CD's. Changing t... | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D Boffellid:The jfet outputs only 1 volt. How do you maintain dynamics without a preamp unless your speakers have a very high sensitivity ? | |
| EVS modified Oppo 105D I too have a fully modified OPPO-105D by EVS for the past two months. I use it strictly for CD/SACD 2-channel audio with balanced IC's. Took a few hundred hours to fully mature and is now the best sounding player I've had in my system over the las... | |
| Is the Oppo-105 with Modwright modifications Like Dsper, I recently purchased a fully modified OPPO-105D from Ric Schultz. It's easily the best sounding player that I've had in my 2-channel system for the past 22 years. |