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My Oppo 105 finally bricked. Streamer suggestions?

Hey all,

Well, my vaunted 105 now won’t connect to Tidal through the app no matter what troubleshooting I do, and since my listening is 40% vinyl, 50% streaming, and 10% cd, I’m losing out on a lot of music. I’d like to keep the Oppo as a the occasional transport but need something to stream Tidal.

I can still connect via HDMI to to the Oppo from my phone or laptop, but the sound is terrible. 

My digital system:

Ragnarok 2 integrated

Denafrips Ares 2 DAC/Schiit Gungnir (currently comparing them side-by-side)

Reference 3A de Capos

Oppo 105 (still can be used as a transport and blu-ray)

 

Suggestions for a streamer that would work well with the Denafrips? Budget under $1K.

Thank you,

simao

 

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oldnovice1
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simao, exact thing happened to me last weekend. Dug up an old Aurilac Aries Mini and fed the oppo. Works fine, but I am using active speakers and in wall xlr cables. Thinking dac in oppo might be limited by info from the aries mini? Sounds a little softer in the vocals. Looking to upgrade the dacs and use a dac/streamer combo. Would need xlrs out and could still use oppo as transport. How do you like the Cambridge?
all suggestions from the group appreciated and welcomed.

oldnovice1
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Have 2 oppos 103 and 105. mConnect lite does circumvent the recent Tidal app upgrade problem. Any way to make the search feature less aggravating? Must use the back arrow until you reverse all of the searches you did during that listening session. Must be an easier way to get back to the original Tidal home page?

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