Can someone from PS Audio please confirm if this is the correct replacement drive for the DMP?
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Yes, Paul said PSA had new drives in stock, so what happened to them. Paul also said there hadnât been any mechanical failures as such - so how do 200 drives get used upâŚ? I was informed that PSA wouldnât sell mechanisms, theyâd only swap them out for faulty drives - but if thereâs been next to no failures - then how has 200 new drives that were supposedly kept in stock to service DMPâs vapourizedâŚ? Itâs a fair enough question?
It was Paul who made the statement: no need to worry; production of the DMP had ceased, but with more than enough new drive mechanisms in stock to service DMPâs for years.
But now it transpires replacement drives will be âused drivesâ removed from secondhand DMPâs trade-in.!
More DMP machinationsâŚ
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I would suspect the 200 drives ended up in production units. Why they wouldnât save them for future repairs is beyond me, but I would suspect whatever happened was intentional.
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Maybe another 1.2 million in the coffers trumped 200 units sitting on a shelfâŚ
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Oppo are part of a group that own PlusOne. Probably make more phones than anyone else in the world. Also sponsor the most popular sports team in the world.
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Doubtful Oppo can be their sponsor much longer as itâs being or has already been banned in India due to their conflict with China.
Which is why they killed their players.
Sales from them was likely little more than an accounting error on their balance sheet, especially with ongoing support costs.
The Indian government banned some apps, banned on all phones. Oppo are planning major investment in India. Plus they sell smartphones for $200, no one else can. The sponsorship deal still has 2 years to run.
The app ban was due to a border dispute up in Ladakh, not Trumpâs âblame everything on Chinaâ. The good thing about Covid, we were planning on going to Ladakh in July.
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Guys, itâs time to put this to bed. The longer it sits here the greater the speculation about evil plots raises its head. We never received all 200 replacement drives promised us. In the end, we wound up with far fewer before all communication with Oppo ceased. I think the actual number was more like 25 or 30, perhaps as high as 50. I can check with our president, Jim if that numberâs really important to the group. At least half of the drives we had went overseas to support our international customers (as we always do our best with) and the remaining numbers slowly dribbled out in units over the ensuing months since Oppo ceased operations.
None of the replacement drives went into production units. Also, it should be noted that the drives are hand-matched by Oppo to their servo/reading boards. So it is not just a drive, it is also a matched PCB that must go with the mechanism.
The relevant information is that what drives we had on hand are gone. For repairs, we are stripping the drives and their boards out of any trade-in units and that has proven to work as we donât get a great number of repair requests.
I see Reese has posted a very detailed DIY project to replace the laser mechanism itself and thanks for that! Iâll have our techs look at this and see if itâs something perhaps we can perform as well. Replacing just the laser mechanism itself might obviate the problem of board matching though Oppo had told us the opposite. Itâs worth looking into. Still, the good news is that we have a very low rate of drive problems reported to us, relative to the number of units in the field. We will continue to support DMP as long as we are able to.
I do apologize for having said that which is obviously wrongâthat we can support all the machines forever. We canât and my over enthusiastic response gets me in trouble every time. Sigh.
When the new SACD Transport arrives in October, we will be offering trade-up deals that are as aggressive as we can for those that wish to upgrade. These new transport models are based on the D and M Japanese manufactured drives that are also used in Denon and Marantz units. I have no guarantees these will be around forever and, in fact, I would be comfortable saying that no mechanical/opto device will be around forever nor will it run forever. Itâs just the nature of mechanical devices that eventually they fail. These new drives are extremely expensive to OEMs. If memory serves they are nearly 10X more expensive than the Oppo drives. Weâll do our financial best to stock spares now while the gettingâs good.
I am going to ask Elk to put an end to the thread. It serves no purpose other than to fan the flames.
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