DVD-A1UDCI or Oppo or other... - Blu-ray Forum

welwynnick · 06-25-2009, 03:52 PM

I couldn't help noticing that there's an upgrade company Denon 5910 on Audiogon at the moment, and wondered how much sense that would make in the big scheme of things. Of course it could be that having the Oppo feed digital audio over spdif to a processor might give the best results anyway, or indeed even having a stereo DAC in between the player and processor, but I think that might undermine the benefit and value of having the upgrade on the both the player and the processor.

My focus is on the interface where digital audio meets analogue. I think this is key for two reasons. Firstly, that's where jitter actually makes its impact, and secondly, that's where the power of the analogue signals are smallest and hence most vulnerable to degradation. I think this applies to an even greater extent with vinyl, especially with moving coil cartridges.

Nomatter, what I wanted to achieve was an improvement in whatever it was that did the D to A conversion, and consolidate my budget in that area. Instead, what I'm planning to do is have both the player and processor upgraded. This gives me some options, in case player processing is best for CD, and processor processing is best for BD, for example. I'm not sure it will work out that way, but I can't wait to find out.

Hopefully, the improvements that help CD performance will directly help AV performance as well. It seems to be many people's long-standing ambition to realise a system that performs wel with both stereo and multi-channel reproduction, but many gave up and went for separate systems. i'm hoping to avoid that.

Nick

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06-25-2009, 03:52 PM	#21
welwynnick Senior Member Member since:Sep 2007	I couldn't help noticing that there's an upgrade company Denon 5910 on Audiogon at the moment, and wondered how much sense that would make in the big scheme of things. Of course it could be that having the Oppo feed digital audio over spdif to a processor might give the best results anyway, or indeed even having a stereo DAC in between the player and processor, but I think that might undermine the benefit and value of having the upgrade on the both the player and the processor. My focus is on the interface where digital audio meets analogue. I think this is key for two reasons. Firstly, that's where jitter actually makes its impact, and secondly, that's where the power of the analogue signals are smallest and hence most vulnerable to degradation. I think this applies to an even greater extent with vinyl, especially with moving coil cartridges. Nomatter, what I wanted to achieve was an improvement in whatever it was that did the D to A conversion, and consolidate my budget in that area. Instead, what I'm planning to do is have both the player and processor upgraded. This gives me some options, in case player processing is best for CD, and processor processing is best for BD, for example. I'm not sure it will work out that way, but I can't wait to find out. Hopefully, the improvements that help CD performance will directly help AV performance as well. It seems to be many people's long-standing ambition to realise a system that performs wel with both stereo and multi-channel reproduction, but many gave up and went for separate systems. i'm hoping to avoid that. Nick

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