Hey....guess what I’m about to do? [Major Oppo mods]

**Gazjam** · 15-01-2018, 18:57

Thinking of damping the chassis, Grant you remember that link for the deshete stuff you posted before?

**struth** · 15-01-2018, 19:03

Will have a look when at pc. Lying down at moment mate

**Gazjam** · 15-01-2018, 19:13

Take it easy mate, I'll have a look.

**struth** · 15-01-2018, 20:47

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Silent-Co...4AAOSwgQ9ViUpz

**Gazjam** · 16-01-2018, 08:30

Thanks Grant.

Ordered some of the Silent Coat to further deaden the casework, last thing is better isolation feet then I'll call it done.
Any suggestions chaps?

*EDIT*
I'll start a separate thread for this.

**Gazjam** · 16-01-2018, 19:55

Feet sorted, set of Sound Damped Steel plates.
http://soundeck.bigcartel.com/produc...ss-steel-black
Work well on glass table under my turntable, improved the Oppo too when I tried them.

Last things to do are line case with dynamat sheet and fit the Furutech/Mundorf silver wire IEC inlet.
Job done.

**clap** · 17-01-2018, 23:30

That will perform with amazing results with those upgrades.

I'm using a Furutech Alpha 3 cable with the Furutech plug and carbon fibre iec into my Onkyo SR605, fitted with an SR mains fuse. The effects were as you described, deeper tighter bass and a much bigger soundstage. I made the mistake of taking this cable off the hifi
as a mere experiment and the improvement was so great I had to go out and buy another cable.

I'm also using a neotech cable on the ps3 fitted with a better fuse. The result was a brighter clearer picture with better colour and detail.

The humax box showed similar upgrades with a cheaper Furutech cable and upgraded fuse.

All my A/V system is fed via a Belkin pf40 which was the first upgrade to sound and picture on the AV system.

**dave2010** · 18-01-2018, 13:57

Gaz

Fascinating. Which Oppo unit did you start with? I have one Oppo DVD/SACD player, but it's old by modern standards.

**Gazjam** · 18-01-2018, 16:28

Hi Dave

Its the new 4K one, the 203.
Feed the Blurays audio into my Dac, so the better analogue board on the 205 would have been wasted on me.
Strictly for video, that said these mods Im doing is really making improvements to audio, really surprised actually.

Looking ahead maybe something major in the works for it?

The guy who delveloped the linear power supply has designed an output board for the 203 which outputs i2s over HDMI.
Interesting to me because my Dac has an i2s input as its best sounding connection.
As the Oppo can be used as a Roon endpoint I could also send music from Roon through i2s, which should be interesting!
Even if musics bettered from another source, movie watching through i2s to the Dac will be great.

Suspect the output board will be as good as his power supply, a no brainer for me really, but one for the future though as the boards not ready yet.

Originally Posted by dave2010

Gaz

Fascinating. Which Oppo unit did you start with? I have one Oppo DVD/SACD player, but it's old by modern standards.

**Stratmangler** · 18-01-2018, 19:00

Originally Posted by Gazjam

The guy who delveloped the linear power supply has designed an output board for the 203 which outputs i2s over HDMI.
Interesting to me because my Dac has an i2s input as its best sounding connection.
As the Oppo can be used as a Roon endpoint I could also send music from Roon through i2s, which should be interesting!
Even if musics bettered from another source, movie watching through i2s to the Dac will be great.

The Young has a RJ45 connection IIRC.
Is that what the supplementary board for the Oppo uses?

The other thing to bear in mind is that I2S was never intended to be used for anything other than internal use in players.
To quote Wiki .....

Limitations
The I2S connection was not intended to be used via cables, and most integrated circuits will not have the correct impedance for coaxial cables.

Cables need to be really, really short.

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