Eagleeyes Posted July 23, 2021 Posted July 23, 2021 (edited) Price drop Standard Oppo 105 D with very little use as an original Oppo blu ray player then sent to SNA member @Lansche plasma guy to pass onto his audio engineer friend in Melbourne who changes the DAC considerably and turns it into a giant DAC killer. Read MSB / DCS gear etc. This unit detroys a standard Oppo 205 and really sounds like a component 10 times the standard Oppo 205 price. Comes with original box to freight.Remote. manual. bluetooth etc. From Bryan who manages the engineers work flow and correspondence etc. Hi mate it takes a few hundred hours of run in (maybe 200 hours or so) to start sounding its potential. So it needs running in to hear it at its best. Perhaps 15 or so have been done to date- upgraded and everyone I've heard from really love their units. I guess in the ad you would just say that its for anyone who wants the functionality, features and menu systems of the Oppo, along with the ability to play cd through to sacd and dsd content from hard drives and such. The sound though is a totally different world to the oppo sound. The complete output stage has been bypassed so instead of all the op amps and other crap in a very complicated signal path (with pretty pedestrian parts to boot) the Sabre dac chips output goes straight to a amorphous core transformer per channel and to the rca outputs. Sound would be described as very slightly lean and cool but with incredible resolution and spatiality. If your system is really well sorted out its a truly staggering upgrade over a stock oppo and plays maybe one level down from the really state of the art MSB and DCS priced stuff. The original outputs are all available to use also so you forego nothing from the original stock oppo (apart from the now non functioning headphone output). And you need to use the new outputs . Match this to a high end transport and you will have a high end digital front end. FROM LPG after advert was posted. Just to be clear. The replay will not compete with the newer top end MSB / DCS etc. rigs. It is also not competitive with my Reimyo DAP 999EX Taeko which is something like $20k as a dac. It is however absolutely stunning and will make a killer digital front end. It really is worlds away from the stock Oppo (and also some very heavily modified Oppos it has been compared to and who charge way more for modified units (will not name modifiers names). I think of a Sabre dac based digital front end as a little lean or cool, a little rolled off in the bass and a little lacking in timbre and decay compared to some other really great options. However the Sabre units have superb resolution and clarity and a type of clear purity and scads of detail. Now imagine what a Sabre based dac sounds like with the entire output stage removed and a single (per channel) very high quality transformer put in its place. So its Sabre dac chip to Transformer to output RCA. Super simple signal path and unbelievable clarity and all the other Sabre dac chip qualities hugely ramped up. Especially well suited to a slightly warm or extended bass system. Also gives you wonderful spatial cues and on the best disks really often makes you feel like you are at the performance. Really at its best playing back master tape dubs in DSD via the USB where it can be very amazing but superb on everything. Would i use it over a new MSB? Nope. 100 times out of 100 i would take a MSB. But it costs nothing and sounds stunning. Plug a USB full of good quality content, play SACD's, CD's. Put on some films. Stream Tidal. Its a very versatile unit and crazy value. I could list the far more expensive and very highly regarded DACS that these modified transformer output Oppo units have beaten but i don't think that's appropriate (and its very system dependent anyway). LPG. --------------------------------- Edited July 23, 2021 by Eagleeyes
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