Originally Posted by GGA
I was quite surprised to read that the BDP-95 having switching supplies, so I emailed Oppo and asked if the BDP-95 uses switching supplies for all its digital boards. This was their reply:

The player uses a toroidal power supply which is fed directly into the analog audio board and into a linear power supply which feeds the decoder board.
I've read info from several sources including reviews that claim the Linear PSU is used for the analogue stage only.

This extract is from the HiFi Choice review linked from the official Oppo UK website. If this info is inaccurate (I don't think it is) Oppo don't appear to have corrected it.

"And there�s plenty of such effort evident. Inside the player is a big toroidal transformer marked �Custom designed and manufactured by Rotel�. Oppo informed us that the Japanese hi-fi manufacturer�s role in the BDP-95EU�s genesis extends to nothing more than the supply of this key component.

The transformer in question is associated with a linear power supply that caters exclusively to the analogue audio sections � everything else is energised by a switch-mode power supply that lives under a metal shield."

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