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Modwright Oppo 95 and Computer Audio

Jwm, Rfogel, Mike60, and others - Are you doing computer audio? I ask because I'm thinking if the Modwright Oppo is "good enough", I could just forget about getting into computer audio myself. At this point at least, I don't mind playing CDs. If the sound is significantly better with hi-rez computer files, though, then I want to be thinking about that too. I ask this question because I'm 1) Very "stupid" when it comes to computer audio - and, in fact, don't have a computer presently (and trying to figure out what to get); and 2) planning to get my Oppo 95 modified by Dan Wright or John Tucker (soon, I hope).

Thanks!

p.s. Do you any of you understand the advantage of the digital input Dan Wright is working on? I don't, since the Oppo already has a USB (and eStat, whatever that is)input.
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doggiehowser
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The USB port on the Oppo is a USB host. It hooks up to other USB devices and "controls" them. This works with USB thumb drives and HDDs.

From my experience, playback of lossless files on the USB HDD ripped from CDs don't sound as good as the same CD played on the Oppo.

Playback of good quality HD tracks lossless does sound very good.

This is not the same as a USB client port on most modern DACs which allow the computer to work as a USB host and the DAC is the client.

What Dan Wright is working on is providing USB/SPDIF inputs to the Sabre32 DAC.

I am not sure if the design is finalised yet, but it was meant to provide an input to the good quality DAC in the Oppo partnered with Dan's tube analog output stage.

So this allows you to plug the Oppo to for instance:
a better CD only transport
a Logitech Squeezebox?
a PC with USB connection
doggiehowser
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http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=89297.0

This is the mod I was referring to

We are designing an upgrade board that will allow as many as three digital inputs to be added to existing ModWright Modified players, tube or SS, thus allowing the ModWright player to act as both player and DAC.

Digital inputs will include SPDIF (RCA and/or BNC) and AES/EBU (XLR) inputs, USB not included. The decision to not incorporate USB was based on the fact that to do so would compromise THIS design. You can easily use a variety of external USB/RCA converters, such as those from M2Tech, that allow for up to 24/192 hi-rez data.
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