Audio sound delay

[jimmeq57]

The audible output from Tidal high quality music service, and my Oppo-205 Blu-Ray player to my Emotiva UMC-200 preamp is delayed about .5 to 1 second. This also happened with my Panasonic DMP-BDT210 Blu-ray Player.

Meaning when I start to Stream a song, or play a CD, the first .5 - 1 second is not heard. (Imagine not hearing the first guitar strum in the song "Hard Days Night" by the Beatles.)

I have never read about any kind of delayed audio in Blu-Ray reviews so I'm skeptical of one of the manufactures' stating in an email that this is due to HDMI handshaking and can be rectified only by unplugging all HDMI connections.

Anyone have this experience? Is there a way to get my audio CD's to start correctly?

 

[Verdinut]

I have an OPPO BDP-95 player. Recently, it has started cutting a portion of a second of the first track of a cd.
It is most likely defective but I haven't contacted the manufacturer so far. Maybe it needs a reset. I haven't disconnected it to check this out.

Maybe some other members have had similar experiences?

 

[TLS Guy]

I have an OPPO BDP-95 player. Recently, it has started cutting a portion of a second of the first track of a cd.
It is most likely defective but I haven't contacted the manufacturer so far. Maybe it needs a reset. I haven't disconnected it to check this out.

Maybe some other members have had similar experiences?

There has been a change in the mastering standard. This has been a common problem in that the sound starts to0 soon. So now to be to current standard there has to be standard silence at the start of the CD. I was aware of this and used to add that silence when I mastered, as WaveLab 5 and 6 did not do it. WaveLab 9 does it automatically in the mastering protocol.

This problem has become particularly acute since people do not use dedicated CD players. BD machines have longer latency to get a read and decide which laser to connect to.

Your only solution to that problem is to remaster the CD, which I can do, but most can't.

 

[afterlife2]

Perhaps a Optical cable may help? That's how I had my Oppo Digital DV-980H
and never experienced the music drop outs.

 

[Montucky]

One of the most lovely things about that Oppo is the analog outputs. That is typically my preferred connection when it comes to pure audio. Have you tried that, whether RCA or XLR?