Oppo 103 and stand alone DAC

I have a Oppo 103D and I just purchased a PS Audio Digilink DAC. I hooked it up with balanced cables to my ARC preamp and it will play CD’s but not SACD’s. What am I doing wrong?

ssand106-02-2018 6:55pm

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erik_squires Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 16,122 posts 07-06-2018 at 02:34am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete You can look for a Vanity HD card for the Oppo. The right options will output DSD over SPDIF. You will loose the multi-channel analog outs though. Erik
auxinput Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,920 posts 07-05-2018 at 09:38pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete That's correct. The 103 will only output pure SACD (DSD) digital signals over an HDMI cable. Only certain HT processors and receivers will be able to receive and decode DSD over HDMI. If you want to play SACD and have your PS Audio DAC play them, you will have to configure the Oppo to convert the SACD data to regular PCM data before playing on the coaxial digital output. Setup Menu => Audio Format Setup => Coaxial/Optical Output => set to "192k LPCM" Setup Menu => Audio Format Setup => SACD Output => set to "PCM" Give this a shot and let us know if it works.
anwar Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 119 posts 07-05-2018 at 02:20am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete In the manual it's stated that SACD is not available through optical/coaxial output. It's available through the HDMI output, but your DAC does not have HDMI input.
oddiofyl Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 3,885 posts 07-05-2018 at 12:56am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete The 103 should output SACD in 24/88k through it's digital out as long as the greatest bit depth and sampling rate is chosen in the set up

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