Originally Posted by
Getgaff
A noticeable improvement for sure.
When I first spun a blu-ray in the 203 after selling my 205 it was uuurrrggghhh, what the hell? Picture quality was pretty disappointing but now it’s looking darn good following the mods. Hoping the OCXO mod will improve the HDMI output even further.
Good stuff, found the same thing playing CDs.
Wonder if you found this when doing the mods?
Fitting the Silver power cable I had to loosen the 4 sprung screws holding the drive in place to make space to fit the cable underneath it.
I found, even with the stabiliser plate kit fitted that noise from the drive varied according to how tightly you clamped the 4 screws down.
First time I fitted it all back together I’d torqued them down till they were tight, but the drive was quite noisy, especially with 4k discs.
Backing them off half a turn quietened the noise down, which makes sense given ‘full clamp’ effectively disregards the benefit of the springs.
Did you find this, and if so did you find a sweet spot for the tightness of the screws?
Thanks.
AC POWER
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