A Look at the Oppo UDP-205 & The Great Audiophile Debate AK vs. JA of 2005.
Oppo UDP-205 and Black Panther. Although I have already collected quite a bit of objective testing results from the Oppo UDP-205, I have not had the time to analyze the data or constructed the graphs...
View ArticleREVIEW: Sony HAP-S1 [by Allan Folz]
Editor's Note: Life has been extremely hectic over the last few weeks! As a result I am extremely grateful that some fellow hobbyists like Raoul Trifan a couple weeks ago and this week Allan Folz have...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: Oppo UDP-205 Part 1: Output levels and digital filter...
Well guys, with this post, I'll begin a multipart look at the Oppo UDP-205 4K Blu-Ray player as an audio component "more objectively". Clearly, as I presented in the preview a couple weeks back, the...
View ArticleMUSINGS: Why Do People Equate High End Audio with Snake Oil?
I ran into this video post by Paul McGowan a few weeks back... "Why do people equate high end with snake oil?" (Start at 3:00 to skip past the chat on building their studio...) Interesting discussion...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: Oppo UDP-205 Part 2: Frequency Response, Noise and Distortion...
Let's continue today with the measurements of the Oppo UDP-205 as started a few weeks back when I looked at the digital filter settings and output levels for this device. As promised, this time we're...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: Oppo UDP-205 Part 3: Jitter, some conclusions, discussions, and...
We've reached the last of the "trilogy" measurement posts I'm planning to make on the Oppo UDP-205 (at least for now!). We've already examined some "microscopic" measurements like the oscilloscope...
View ArticleMUSINGS: Thoughts on audio device "modding" (eg. a tube modded Oppo BDP-105)....
Couldn't resist the similarity :-). I'm sure the sonic output of both devices have been affected by the modifications! Notice that this Oppo is also sitting on a "Base" device that IMO is very much of...
View ArticleMUSINGS: Zen and the Art of High Fidelity Audio. On transparency, in response...
Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities, the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility takes the...
View ArticleSummer Update! Huawei Matebook X Pro, Western Digital Gold HDD, and jitter...
Well guys and gals, hope you're having a great summer (or winter as the case may be!). The weather here is certainly conducive to taking it easy and just enjoying the music instead of thinking much...
View ArticleQuick Review: Inexpensive Spigen Legato Arc wireless Bluetooth headphone with...
As I head off camping for the week, I thought I'd mention an inexpensive impulse buy the other day... Something to consider if you're thinking of getting into wireless Bluetooth headphones on a minimum...
View Article"MQA-CD x UHQCD" Listening Test by Agitater.
[Editor's Note: As you may have read in the last few months, there is a new variety of "MQA-CDs" released into the wild. Here in the West, we have seen the new release by Steve Reich Pulse/Quartet...
View ArticleDEMO / MUSINGS: Let's listen to some jitter simulations with sideband...
A couple weeks ago, we started getting into the topic of jitter and the concept of whether jitter is audible and at what level. As I had expressed at that time, my belief based on experience with the...
View ArticleLocal Audio Store Visits: Liquid Sound, Vancouver.
Well, it is summer and today I thought I'd post something a little "lighter", "softer" and I think more typical of audiophile blogs :-). I was thinking the other day, I'm fortunate to be living in...
View ArticlePREVIEW: RME ADI-2 Pro FS AD/DA Converter
I. Prologue For those who have followed along on the blog, you may recall that this blog started with some arguments I had with folks on an audiophile forum around the audibility of high bitrate MP3....
View ArticleUpdate: Raspberry Pi 3 B+ "Touch" Streamer, JustBoom Digi HAT, 3.0A power...
Back in early 2017, I documented on the building of my little Pi "Touch" music streamer that I've been using over the last while for playback through my Logitech Media Server system at home. Over the...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: RME ADI-2 Pro FS ADC performance and as measurement hardware.
I discussed the features and some listening impressions of the RME ADI-2 Pro FS ADC/DAC a couple weeks ago. As I noted at that time, my main aim in owning this device is for the purpose of using it as...
View ArticleMUSINGS / MEASUREMENTS: About THD(+N) and standardizing testing here... (With...
Last week, when I published my look into the RME ADI-2 Pro FS ADC performance, I started using SpectraPLUS for measurements in high resolution for THD and THD+N. I know, it's an old measurement and...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: RME ADI-2 Pro FS as DAC (Part I - output levels & digital...
After having explored a couple weeks back the ADC capabilities of the RME ADI-2 Pro FS, for this installment, let's start with evaluating the DAC output quality of the device and in the process...
View ArticleMUSINGS / MEASUREMENTS: A look at Intersample Peaks and Overload Tolerance......
I suspect that many audiophiles were introduced to the topic of intersample peaks (ISP) when Benchmark first released their DAC2 HGC which advertised and discussed the provision of +3.5dB overhead for...
View ArticleMEASUREMENTS: RME ADI-2 Pro FS as DAC (Part II - frequency response, noise,...
As we saw previously, the RME ADI-2 Pro FS is based on the AKM AK4490 DAC chip and provides a good assortment of features like filter settings. We've seen that the headphone output amplifier provides...
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