"Any status report on this? "

Yes.... I just had a chance to check out this player.

Played the first track of the Stereophile Test CD 2. This is channel mapping and the guitar is near 0dBFS.

I booted the player 10 times for a test.

10 for 10 I was getting distortion at 0dBFS and channels were inverted left to right and right to left. This happens if the format is wrong and you are set for I2S data but the data is actually left justified as there is only 1 bit difference between the two so you get clipping when you are within 6dB of 0dBFS.

I opened it up and put the capacitor in to hold the chips in a reset state.

Retested.... still getting distortion on the peaks and channels are still inverted. Booted it again... same thing. While it was playing reset the chips and it was still distorting with inverted channels.

Then I checked the jumpers on the card. The card was set for 24bit I2S, the Oppo is 24 bit Left Justified.

So I was right about it being a format misconfig, just wrong about what caused it. I just want to double check everything to make sure all channels are still mapped properly and it should be all set for Jim.

Shawn



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