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Hey everyone!

I have an Oppo HA-1 and HE-400i.  Every now and then, the Oppo HA-1 pauses briefly (less than a second or so) while playing music.  This seems random and I wonder if it has anything to do with the poor power management on my laptop's motherboard.  I feel like I hear some noise also whenever this happens.

I've heard that the USB input is poorly implemented on the Oppo HA-1.  Do you think I should try a Jitterbug, Wyrd or Uptone Regen to fix this problem?  I also have a Resonessence Concero - would it help to use this as a USB to SPDIF converter and feed that into my HA-1 instead?

Thank you for your advice!

If you have a Mac laptop, or if your pc laptop has optical, try that. If you want to try a filter, my research points to the wyrd has being the best first option.

Hey everyone!

I have an Oppo HA-1 and HE-400i.  Every now and then, the Oppo HA-1 pauses briefly (less than a second or so) while playing music.  This seems random and I wonder if it has anything to do with the poor power management on my laptop's motherboard.  I feel like I hear some noise also whenever this happens.

I've heard that the USB input is poorly implemented on the Oppo HA-1.  Do you think I should try a Jitterbug, Wyrd or Uptone Regen to fix this problem?  I also have a Resonessence Concero - would it help to use this as a USB to SPDIF converter and feed that into my HA-1 instead?

Thank you for your advice!

Skips and blips likely will not be fixed with usb decrapifying mojo. You might want to check your system device settings and seeing if you can increase the priority on the usb ports, or turn overall system performance to high, or shut off any power saving modes on the usb ports, etc.

I owned Wyrd for long awhile, and Regen green and then Regen Amber.
Sorry, but Wyrd did not deliver the best soundstage, detailing or background clarity with my iMac, MacBook Pro, Gungnir nor Yggy.

Regen was a clear winner with smaller form factor but bigger price tag.
You decide what is most important.

A friend of mine has the Regen and uses it in-between an Aries streamer and a Mytek DSD192 DAC. It made a very nice improvement. He just added a pair of Audioquest Jitterbugs and they made an even bigger one (in conjunction with the Regen. There's a thread over on Computer Audiophile where several people are reporting similar "combo" results). Why it works? Who knows. That it works is apparent. Not subtle at all. 

We (well, he, as he was the one spending the money) initially thought he might want a single Jitterbug (inline) *maybe*... but the second one (in parallel, shoved into the Aries' USB drive socket) added yet another bump in performance that neither of us could deny. For such a cheap tweak, they can have a profound impact (two of them is like $98 -- cheaper than the Regen by almost half!). 

We didn't try it without the Regen in the system. Someday I'd like to, as I haven't invested in a Regen and I'd love to think that it's somehow superfluous.

Hey everyone!

I have an Oppo HA-1 and HE-400i.  Every now and then, the Oppo HA-1 pauses briefly (less than a second or so) while playing music.  This seems random and I wonder if it has anything to do with the poor power management on my laptop's motherboard.  I feel like I hear some noise also whenever this happens.

I've heard that the USB input is poorly implemented on the Oppo HA-1.  Do you think I should try a Jitterbug, Wyrd or Uptone Regen to fix this problem?  I also have a Resonessence Concero - would it help to use this as a USB to SPDIF converter and feed that into my HA-1 instead?

Thank you for your advice!

Can you give us more specs for your PC? I've had skips on my laptop as well (using a Meridian Explorer), usually when the system was over-taxed, but usually it doesn't take too many tweaks to clean up the environment so there's plenty of headroom for the playback software to manage the DAC well...