DSD files and the Oppo

[Mike48]

(05-05-2013 00:04)wappinghigh Wrote:  ... Mike. Quick Q/ can you summarize what's the issue with Oppo and gapless? Precisely why is gapless not supported. Is it a hardware limitation or firmware? Cheers.

Sorry, I didn't see this until now. I don't know if it's of any use, 8 months later, but here goes.

The Oppo rep told me it could not be addressed in firmware. That makes me think it's a hardware issue. As I understand it (and I may be wrong), gapless playback requires (among other things) that the receiving component have a big enough buffer to store the beginning of the next track, so it can be joined to the end of the current track. It would also need the ability to retrieve that data while playing back the current track. I'm guessing that the Oppo, like the PS Audio Bridge, doesn't have enough buffer space to make that possible. That would be a plausible reason that it can't be fixed in firmware.