My PM-3 headband is still in good shape - any suggestions on how to keep it going? Would an occasional light leather conditioner help? I've used a very small amount roughly yearly.

I own the A70 Pro and am enjoying it a great deal. I use it with my Oppo UDP-205 as a source.

This was a lot of fun and I'm glad to have gone. My wife and I both found it eye-opening. Some key highlights: - Being able to listen to multiple Stax setups - both at the Stax table as well as privately owned. - Finally getting to listen to some Focal headphones - both the Clear and the...

I can't speak for quality or tonality. From a measurements perspective this measured better than the A90D which along with the UI was the reason I purchased it instead. (The price of each were rather similar.)

I agree. As mentioned above I don't have a great deal of reference points but the performance and functionality of this amp is superlative in my opinion. Other than wanting a tube amp in order to kick the tires on tube amps, I feel zero need to even contemplate an alternative "solid state"...

I sadly do not - I am in some ways early into my journey. My primary points of references are a Benchmark DAC-1 and the headphone amp in my Oppo UDP-205. I understand the former to be a competent and well-regarded DAC and AMP, and the latter to be a world-class DAC with a ho-hum amp. Versus...

Before my comments - I'm a newbie :wink: I had a HD650 and an Oppo UDP-205 with a suspicion that the Oppo didn't quite make the most of the dynamics of my Senn. Starting afresh, I landed on the Topping A70 Pro with its (a) slick UI and (b) solid measurements. Anyhow, versus the Oppo's...

I have a set of headphones (Oppo PM-1) that I love that I've long used with the stock unbalanced cables that came with it. So far as I know these are relatively high quality cables -- OCC etc. -- that I presume set a good bar for performance. I've never explored balanced performance since I...

No idea, but I love those old-school honkin' Denon universal players as well.

I've used the Lightning dongle with my Oppo PM-1s connected to an iPhone for a couple of years now. It works great with plenty of punch. I don't have too many other sources to be able to say how much audio performance I've left on the table, but for a smartphone-powered portable solution, this...

Right now, and for some years now, just the one: an Oppo UDP-205. I've loved its versatility as a source player for nearly every format I own, a DAC that as far as I am aware is still stellar, and a decent (?) headphone amp? Being able to hang it off a PC, shuffle it to a room to play some...

I'm curious to learn more about how their products differentiate against something like the very engineering-centric PM-1. There's no local dealer so I'd be curious to learn more about their specific strengths.

Hi everyone! I'm a relatively new owner, having joined the PM-1 party less than a year ago. I had been using a PM-3 (alongside an AirPods Max) as my go-to headphone ever since I bought it when Oppo was shutting down. Like many PM-3 owners, I had wondered about its older and more capable...

This was quite a read. The drama from skepticism about Oppo's insanity attempting to enter this market, to rebuke over the PM-1 price tag, to drama over alleged schemes by the beta testers, to the endless Earpad-Gate and that one dude constantly claiming that nothing outside the transducer can...

As a small matter of irony, it turns out--years later--that the reason why someone who has a PM-1 would ever need a PM-2 earpad is because the PM-2 earpads are the only ones available for purchase now :)