No, I haven't been hibernating!
Sept 24, 2013 11:36:13 GMT
Post by Deleted on Sept 24, 2013 11:36:13 GMT
Recently I purchased an Oppo BDP 103 BluRay player, which does almost everything except make my cup of coffee.
I have gone pretty well as far as I can with the PC side of things for now, but baulked at the idea of trying to feed high quality audio and video into the listening room without degrading video and audio quality. Use of a remote control was another problem.
My highest quality audio and video files are saved to Corsair Voyagers powered by an external +5V JLH PSU, and a modified USB cable where the +5V wire is disconnected in the plug at the PC end of the USB cable. My 40" Samsung LED backlit TV has a couple of USB ports capable of accepting high resolution video files. It will even play music videos in MP4 format downloaded from Youtube s at 1080 when supplied at this resolution. However, I had previously found at david2vk's place that his Oppo 95 sounded even better from USB memory sticks when plugged into a JLH PSU.
My Oppo BDP 103 also uses an SMPS PSU for the digital area, and it also benefits in the same manner.
Both the Toslink output from the TV, and coax SPDIF from the Oppo 103 are fed into my SC DAC, and then Class A preamp and Class A power amplifier.
I have just completed a new +5V JLH PSU specifically for use with the Oppo 103. Unfortunately, the photos washed out the gorgeous deep blue look of Will's JLH PCB, and the glossy black of Will's dual regulated PSU PCB. With Will's PSU PCB I was able to fit the high performing surface mount ES1D diodes in the bridge rectifier section under the PCB, and this gave a noticeable further improvement in SQ. I may at a later time spray the case black, as suitable black ABS cases are now hard to obtain Downunder. I chose to use the more expensive USB sockets ($19.95 each,) as I was then able to use a small piece of veroboard instead of designing ,etching and drilling a special PCB.
The USB sockets plug directly into the veroboard and are then soldered in . I connected IEC earth to the copper under the piece of PCB that the transformer is mounted on.
This gives some airflow under the transformer .
Kind Regards
Alex
I have gone pretty well as far as I can with the PC side of things for now, but baulked at the idea of trying to feed high quality audio and video into the listening room without degrading video and audio quality. Use of a remote control was another problem.
My highest quality audio and video files are saved to Corsair Voyagers powered by an external +5V JLH PSU, and a modified USB cable where the +5V wire is disconnected in the plug at the PC end of the USB cable. My 40" Samsung LED backlit TV has a couple of USB ports capable of accepting high resolution video files. It will even play music videos in MP4 format downloaded from Youtube s at 1080 when supplied at this resolution. However, I had previously found at david2vk's place that his Oppo 95 sounded even better from USB memory sticks when plugged into a JLH PSU.
My Oppo BDP 103 also uses an SMPS PSU for the digital area, and it also benefits in the same manner.
Both the Toslink output from the TV, and coax SPDIF from the Oppo 103 are fed into my SC DAC, and then Class A preamp and Class A power amplifier.
I have just completed a new +5V JLH PSU specifically for use with the Oppo 103. Unfortunately, the photos washed out the gorgeous deep blue look of Will's JLH PCB, and the glossy black of Will's dual regulated PSU PCB. With Will's PSU PCB I was able to fit the high performing surface mount ES1D diodes in the bridge rectifier section under the PCB, and this gave a noticeable further improvement in SQ. I may at a later time spray the case black, as suitable black ABS cases are now hard to obtain Downunder. I chose to use the more expensive USB sockets ($19.95 each,) as I was then able to use a small piece of veroboard instead of designing ,etching and drilling a special PCB.
The USB sockets plug directly into the veroboard and are then soldered in . I connected IEC earth to the copper under the piece of PCB that the transformer is mounted on.
This gives some airflow under the transformer .
Kind Regards
Alex