I had a VDA 2 and thought it was pretty good for the money but you are right, the OPPO 103 sounds pretty good in its own right. I mostly use mine with my NAD M51 DAC but its outputs sound pretty damn good with SACD and HDCD for a $600 machine
Oppo CD/ Channel Islands DAC connectivity issue
I recently got a CIA VDA-2 DAC. I connected my iMac to stream music from my external HD to the DAC via a Toslink cable and from it to my preamp via RCA interconnects and it works dandy. However, the DAC only as two inputs: a Toslink and a digital input (RCA) . I connect my Oppo CD player from the coax jack on the back of it to the digital input on the DAC via a Belden 1694A digital cable, which is terminated on both ends with RCA connectors. With this connection to my DAC, I get no signal to the DAC. Can somebody give me an idea of what I am doing wrong? It has been suggested that I need to re-program the output of the Oppo, but I have no idea what that entails.
Thanks for any advice you sharp fellows can provide. Cheers, Whitestix
Thanks for any advice you sharp fellows can provide. Cheers, Whitestix