Recent content by genegold99

I finally figured out the source of the audio "break up." Between Oppo and dac I use an iFi SPDIF iPurifier. It's supposed to support up to 192 kHz and has up until recently. All my compatible DSD files having problem got me thinking about the iFi. It's a good little gizmo sonically, if used...

If you know where to look, there's some good gear coming out of China.

A week in with the change in settings and only two files have shown slight breakup the first time through, for reasons I've yet to figure out. There's HDMI for audio here now except from cable box to Oppo. It's a myth about tubes that they are always warm. Generally, tube gear has a different...

I don't know what the HDMI Format setting actually does, but it doesn't appear that upscaling or upscaling alone was the problem, since the vast majority of files were playing cleanly at first or eventually. In fact, some of the files I tested last night that played badly were DSF, which if I...

I may have figured it out. Nothing to do with the SSD . It appears to be in the Oppo's HDMI Format and LPCM Output settings. The first is between Auto, LPCM, Bitstream and Digital Off, while the latter is between 192K, 96K, 48K and Bitstream. For those interested, when my Oppo 203 was modified...

Thanks, but I'm not without -- unless I send the Oppo in for repair. The vast majority play fine the first time.

My desktop is on a different floor than the TV and my laptop doesn't have an HDMI port. I could load some music files on the laptop and play to the Oppo, although that would be going through a program such as foobar so it wouldn't be quite the same. I've been thinking of two other possibilities...

Just to be clear, this is not a PC set up, but part of a living room non-computer audio system. The Oppo feeds a tube dac, then a tube preamp and finally powered speakers. My first thought was tubes, but my checking those aside, since everything works fine the vast majority of the time --...

If if's RFI, why on one file/files and not with others played seconds afterward, and back and forth? That, in addition to the history is why RFI doesn't seem a plausible explanation to me. I've posted a recording of full breakup at https://1drv.ms/u/s!AqsCKHVTj0ydpm2ySV97q8Vohi_5?e=05ZtSF...

I don't see how RFI could be at play; otherwise it'd always be so. Plus nothing else is doing this -- video music files on the same SSD, via a USB flash drive, USB or TV. Yes, I've got a few smaller ones - 125 to 480 gb, SanDisk and Samsung. Unless I'm completely missing something, it's either...

This is an odd problem that tells me maybe I need to know more about how an SSD works -- or maybe I've just got a bad one. I have a USB cable run from a 1 TB Samsung 860 Evo in an Inateck powered enclosure that contains music folders/files (flac, mp3, etc.) to an Oppo 203 CD/DVD player. Over the...

The Cuinas dac uses a separate internal battery, powered either from a PC-USB line or an external adapter, using a 2.1mm plug in either case.

If by "play back" you mean play music, etc., from my computer, then yes, with a dac (usb adapters) and a pair of unbalanced ICs between the computer and speakers (each speaker has its own power). The problem came up when I added a power conditioner or strip (Panamax, Mapleshade) and plugged the...

Just received the Hum-X. Plugged the computer through it into the Mapleshade strip, along with the speakers and montiros, and the buzz/hash is eliminated. In fact, it's quieter than ever, with virtually nothing audible ear to speaker. The only question left then is effect on sound quality...

Well, the speakers are isolated now with the Mapleshade strip or whatever I use; the noise problem is the computer line. Using the Xtreme Power Supply Calculator, the computer draws about 3 amps (~350w).