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Do any of you have experience with the LG UBK90? I'm in the market for a new 4K ULTRA Blu-Ray player and have heard that those were good, but I'm wondering if they're having the same freezing issues that the rest are. I didn't see any mention of them in this thread, just the UBK80. Another...

Hello All, After 21 years of faithful service, my Harman/Kardon AVR-300 has finally bit the dust. And it hasn't even fully bitten the dust, it's popping the circuit breaker which I believe is a sign that the insulation has degraded to the point where electricity is heading to ground, and now...

I wound up buying a long optical cable at Walmart during my last minute stocking stuffer spree, ran it between the TV and the AVR, and it worked. Problem solved, thanks for the help Gentlemen.

It definitely confused me and wound up being a dead end. I could never get it to work in spite of my best efforts, and I suspect that your explanation is correct.

Thanks for the help John, a longer optical cable is pretty short money on BJC's website, so I think I'll go that way.

What i was thinking, and maybe this incorrect, the Oppo winds up being a pass through between the TV and AVR. Maybe that's the part that I'm missing right there, and it will never work like that.

Actually, if you go to page 29 of the BDP-103 user manual, it talks about this very subject. If you click the input button on the remote, then a menu will pop up where you can enable either HDMI 1 or HDMI 2 over to ARC. This is what prompted me to post this thread, and I was just looking to...

AVR 300, old school and way before HDMI was introduced. I would love to upgrade, but don't have a lot of money kicking around for that sort of thing, maybe when this one dies....

Hello All, I recently bought a 58" Samsung 4K smart TV, and a family member gave us Disney+ as an early Christmas gift. I then decide to route the audio signal from the TV to the home theater system. The logical place, and the shortest run, was to my Oppo BDP-103, which then passes the signal...

Ah, now I get it, took you too literal I guess. Now a stupid question, what are Maggies? Ceiling mount is not out of the question, bu the post and beam construction would make that pretty difficult. I think I'm stuck using the back wall. I did see a set of Atoms for sale on ebay for $125, so...

I don't have much of a choice when it comes to walls, the sectional has a wall immediately behind it and immediately to the left of it with corner of the sectional sitting in the corner made by the two walls. bi-pole would work great to the left, it's the right side that is the issue. Nothing...

Thanks for the inputs, should be able to pick up a set of used atoms pretty inexpensively. I would have figured that the bi-poles would have been the best because they are supposed to be more versitile than the rest of the surround options. It would be great to have a room that is perfectly...

Hello All, Well, we're in the process of remodelling our house and the listening area is changing, and I'm struggling on where to place the surround channels. First the basics and what's going on: this is a traditional 5.1 home theater system that I always say is 50/50 between music and...

I own that exact same sub, do you have the manual for it? If you do, read it carefully. If you are running a single RCA ended interconnect between pre-out on the back of the receiver to either the left or right (doesn't matter which) RCA input on the back of the sub, then you have to turn the...

The only thing the manual says about the crossover point is that when "small" is selected for speaker sizes, then everything under 100 hz goes to the sub-woofer channel. It is not adjustable, went through the manual last night trying to figure it out, as a matter fact I am running the thing at...

I should have known that Sherlock Gene would sniff something out. That's a good question and I'll give you the history as I know it. One of the speakers got dropped while moving I believe; not sure how, but that is when I first noticed that one of the speakers had a little bit of distortion at...

This why I qualified my statemenet "....point for discussion....", this is a subject that is controversial. http://www.nousaine.com/pdfs/Center%20Channel%20Speakers.pdf This is the link to what Tom Nousaine had to say about center channels, and it made me think about tibre matching and how...

This is point for discussion, not arguing here, just throwing this out to hear opinions. Tom Nousaine once said that the center channel market is a complete sham, and that the best center channel speaker in the world is a 2-way speaker with a 6.5" woofer, situated vertically, 5.25" woofer is...

I agree about never being too old, however I paid $209 when they were new and put $80 into them a year ago. Another $80 will put me at almost as much as paid for them new. I guess that was my point in that. I was actually listening at a very low level, had just put the kids to bed, and they...

Hello All, I was listening to music the other night, a little AC/DC to be exact and noticed that one of my Paradigm Titans (the front channel speakers in the system) had some crackily distortion coming out of it during a guitar solo, and not because I was playing them too loud. This is not the...

Thank you for your insights. I do have a cople of sets of component video cables kicking around, will give it try and see how it works.

Thanks to all of you for your input. I've been thinking about ordering the analog cables to make the TrueHD, DVD-A and SACD functions work. The cables are about $100 coming from BJC, so little bit of a hard swallow at this point in time. That's a lot less money than a new receiver and I don't...

I'm actually using the digital coax, my receiver isn't that modern. I'm sure it's the same deal as the HDMI, because it's not analog. Thanks, Adam.

Hello All, I recently bought a BDP-103 and am loving it, glad that I took that plunge. I'm wrestling with an issue and I am wondering if others are wrestling, or have solved this issue. The BDP-103 has an adjustment for the cross-over frequency. You have to set your speakers to "small" and...

Hey, thanks! So far I am really impressed with the Oppo, but everyone said that I would be. The upscaling of DVD's is particularily impressive, am able to see details in the movie "UP" that I was never able to see before.

Hello All, I finally took the plunge and bought an Oppo BDP-103, now I finally have a BR player to compliment the HDTV and replace an old CD player whose optics are in the process of kicking the bucket. I was going to throw the Denon CD player away and thought that maybe someone here might be...

Thanks for the suggestions, appreciate it. I am definitely looking for a player that will do it all: Blu-Ray, DVD, DVD-A, CD, SACD, the whole shootin' match. It seems like disc technology has run it's course, so that is why I am looking for a player like this. Not to mention that I will save...

Like maybe alternative brands to Oppo. Sorry that I inconvenienced you're intellectual discussion with my thread.

I started a thread about about this very same topic about 2-3 months ago and the basic answer is to suck it up and deal with it, unless you're all willing to boycott HDMI in favor of component. Good luck with that and now you're back to the sucking up and dealing part. I will say that you guys...

I finally decided to part with the greenbacks for a BDP-93, especially after my old Denon CD player decided to cash in it's chips. I figured that it was time to step into the 21st century by combining the video and audio source into one very capable unit, and most people agree that the Oppo's...