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    Sounds great, Gaz. Glad you've been suitably rewarded for your efforts. Enjoy, dude!

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    my Oppo BDP-103 just came back from Oppo and they will not fix it, instead they want to remove the mainboard and replace with another, on the basis that we don't really want to figure out the problem and it is easier for us to charge you £200 to replace the mainboard, and by the way "we are getting out of the AV market and no longer will be producing BluRay Players" , thank you very much Oppo, you can bloody well feck off then :-(

    so before I upgrade my 103 with some of these great mods that Gaz has done, can anyone suggest a good person who could have a look at my 103 and hopefully fix it, it might be getting too hot and shutting down, it all works fine except that 20 mins into a DVD or Blu Ray it stops, freezes, and I have to reboot to carry on, so that is why I sent it back to Oppo to fix, but it is out of warranty and the dealer I bought it from 5 years ago is useless
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    Worth 200 to get fixed imo. Most of these faults are a nightmare to find unless it's a usual. Changing boards is a usual reaction for a fault like this I'm afraid
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  4. #94
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcourtney View Post
    my Oppo BDP-103 just came back from Oppo and they will not fix it, instead they want to remove the mainboard and replace with another, on the basis that we don't really want to figure out the problem and it is easier for us to charge you £200 to replace the mainboard, and by the way "we are getting out of the AV market and no longer will be producing BluRay Players" , thank you very much Oppo, you can bloody well feck off then :-(

    so before I upgrade my 103 with some of these great mods that Gaz has done, can anyone suggest a good person who could have a look at my 103 and hopefully fix it, it might be getting too hot and shutting down, it all works fine except that 20 mins into a DVD or Blu Ray it stops, freezes, and I have to reboot to carry on, so that is why I sent it back to Oppo to fix, but it is out of warranty and the dealer I bought it from 5 years ago is useless
    Hi Peter,
    must be frustrating!

    One thing thats maybe worth having a look at (assuming its an overheating issue?) is that the heatsink on the main board (lhs from the back) hasnt somehow dislodged, or lost its ‘clamp’ on the chip it sits on?




    If that looks ok and its a cap failing or somesuch then I’d agree with Grant...its worth paying to get it fixed.
    Its a real ballache tracking down whats failing and I wouldnt even go there.
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  5. #95
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    My Oppomod stabiliser is not all it should be.

    This one ADDED a serious amount of noise and vibration and I’ve had to modify the spinner by removing one of the three pads to make it centre over the disc consistently.

    Because of this I’m not convinced it’s any better than the original equipment it replaced. £130 down the drain as far as I’m concerned and not one I’d recommend.

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    Getgaff, do you have the 103D ( specifically that model Darbee ) ??
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  7. #97
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    Quote Originally Posted by Getgaff View Post
    My Oppomod stabiliser is not all it should be.

    This one ADDED a serious amount of noise and vibration and I’ve had to modify the spinner by removing one of the three pads to make it centre over the disc consistently.

    Because of this I’m not convinced it’s any better than the original equipment it replaced. £130 down the drain as far as I’m concerned and not one I’d recommend.
    would send it back
    Regards,
    Grant .... ؠ ......Don't be such a big girl's blouse

    I've said it before and I'll say it again: democracy simply-doesn't-work
    .... ..... ...... ...... ................... ..... ..... ..... ..... .....
    FIIO K7 BT, M11 PLUS, BTR7, KA5 - OPPO BDP-103D - PANASONIC UB450 - PANASONIC 4K ULTRA HD TV - PIXEL 6 - AVANTREE LR BLUETOOTH - 2* X600 SOUNDCORE - HEADPHONES INCLUDE, FIIO, NURAPHONES', FOCAL, OPPO, BOSE, CAMBRIDGE, BOWER & WILKINS, DEVIALET, MARSHALL, SONY, MITCHELL & JOHNSTON - 2*ZBOOK'S- MERCURY BD ROM, ROON, QOBUZ, TIDAL, PLEX, CYBERLINK, JRIVER - MULTI HDD'S -

    Oh my god! There's nothing wrong with the bidet is there?

    “Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy".

    “You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.”

    "You don't have free will. You have the appearance of free will.”

    “There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!”


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  8. #98
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcourtney View Post
    Getgaff, do you have the 103D ( specifically that model Darbee ) ??
    I have the 205.

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    Quote Originally Posted by struth View Post
    would send it back
    Me too.
    The seller seems a good guy from my email contact with him, sure he’d sort you out.
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    Hardwired 10kVA balanced mains powering entire system
    AMPS
    Meridian 557 power Amp (Modded) / PS Audio BHK Preamp (Modded)
    SPEAKERS
    Wharfedale Evo 4.4
    DAC
    PS Audio Directstream (Modded)
    TURNTABLE
    Pro-Ject X8 balanced output via XLR / Ortofon Quintet Blue cartridge
    PHONOSTAGE
    Pro-Ject DS3 B balanced Input (TT and Phonostage powered by Pro-Ject Power box RS2 linear psu)
    DIGITAL
    OPPO 203 (Modded: Linear PSU, i2s output to Dac) - Roon Endpoint, HDMI input used for all things Streaming/ PS5 /AppleTV ... also good for movies apparently?
    MUSIC PLAYBACK
    Tweaked AP-Linux based Roon Server into Oppo 203 as Roon endpoint
    Ipad Roon Remote.
    Apple Music/ YouTube via AppleTV, fed to Dac via Oppo HDMI input/i2s output to Dac.
    SPEAKER CABLES
    Biwired: Duelund DCA10GA (Bass) Duelund DCA16GA (mid & treble) Duelund 12DCA used as jumpers (On
    "Blackcat Cable" Chris Sommivigo's advice - yup, even with biwire it sounds better - and it does)
    INTERCONNECTS
    All Balanced: Ghost+ recording studio XLR cables

  10. #100
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    Thanks guys, I’ve reached out to him for help.

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