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Post Subject: Yes, this is kind of strange.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 9/26/2013

Yes, this is kind of strange. This is a cheap Blue Ray player; I think it is Sony BDP-S790 for $279. It played anything and supports live stream for pretty much anything. It is very comfortable to have it in opera room as video source. The picture is fine with it, sound is so-so. The OPPO that I had before was a loner and it was better but it did not do steaming. This Sony is small plastic piece of crap but it does the job. I never owned any component that cost under $300, so it is kind of entertaining. From another perspective I think that all out contemporary high-end digital devised shall cost $300, do you think the intestines that we have in $15K player today are different from mass consumer device that costs nothing? Anyhow, that is a tangential subject.

So, the played that I had before did not have noise but this, the replacement the Sony sent is very strange. Regardless where I plug it, in the wall or in the PP2000 it has noise. The noise is lover if I eliminate preamp but still there. However I bridge the grounds the noise is still there. I do not write a final verdict about it as I think if I keep looking then I will address it but I so far was not able to find the problem. For sure it is not PP2000 problem. It is certain that the presence of PP2000 makes people to be more precise in this grounding arrangement but I think in my given case it is just the somehow faulty player. As I said I have a few other older DVD players and as I plug them I had absolutely no problems. Yes, Clark, I did of cause experimented with AC polarity.

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