Uhm..
All the mods I did took a few weeks to bed in, the hdmi cable too.
All sounding great, as good as I’d ever need it to be really.
Audio and video are pretty special, really happy,
When trying out the red flat Apollo Av cable, my current one, I tried it against a very spendy Wireworld silver cable, and I felt I wasn’t missing much with the Apollo.
Its a great cable for i2s use.
Use the Oppo as a Roon endpoint as well, it’s great but can’t do native DSD, and I have a lot of SACD rips I’m not getting the benefit of.
May change the digital music source in the future, but as an up to 24/192 streamer the Oppo’s pretty great.
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