Many capacitors were replaced on the power supply board, the main board, and the disc drive. I’d love to see your player open 
It’s not a modified Naim product, after all. I can understand that.
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In the first picture, those are the grounding improvements. Are they the black cables between the copper foils?
How have the picture and sound improved? Were you able to compare it to a production model?
Great project!
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I now have the 9000 running through the Anthem mrx 540 receiver.
Properly set up with the provided microphone by the dealer.
Further improvements after retiring the Sony TR 1080 receiver are quite worthwhile. Speech and intricate placement in movie scenes
are beyond what I expected.
I do not need them for cd reproduction so couldn’t comment on that aspect.
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I have a stock unit with AKM DACs as a reference and have many times A-B’d single cap additions with soldering iron in hand. The Copper Chassis was a big upgrade so much so I rebuilt the modified unit in the original chassis. It really surprised me a big step up in Dynamics and ‘body’, projection and solidity. I added a GND plate and experimented with GND locations, the steel chassis acts as a GND link with the design - yuk. As you probably know steel is around 6% the conductivity of copper and is sonically not great. I foiled where the chassis links are made to the chassis so it was copper all the way through. I also used 3M EMI/RFI absorber to add to shielding and noise reduction. the black was just insulation
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PS the problem I had was there were only 2 analogue out models available and I had both and preferred the Panasonic 9000 over the Oppo 205 (yes really). I did not get on with the processors (I had an Acurus ACT 4, the only AV processor that had stereo DACs covering 20 channels and it didnt sound as good as my stock 9000 through a modded (sorry naim) AV2. naim could wipe the floor with any processor if they simply built a digital out unit with adequate DSP and managed digital out well. Trinnov’s are all about computing power and good though they are they are not better with many discs than a modded 9000 and 4 naim 32.5’s. The AV world believes DSP solves all evils and it solves a few (sort of) but adds complexity, noise, digital nasties.
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PS DSP is great for subs and bass alignment and I do that but don’t DSP any bed channels. That’s what room treatment and careful positioning is for !
Sort of to one side, but with netflix wanting to buy warner brothers, its obvious they don’t want you to own the media (content) just rent them.
Martin
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Indeed. The old photocopier/toner economic model.
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Thanks for your encouraging reply - I’ll let you know how it goes get in.
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Is also my fear.
But OTOH Netflix studios films are available on Blu-ray.
After Right to Repair, the consumer really needs a Right to Own legislation. Ideally, no company would be allowed to offer subscription or rental service without a purchase to own option.
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To all Panasonic 9000 owners, whilst playing content, does the unit:
- Vibrate at all in the rack?
- Any mechanical noise from the mechanism?
Many thanks in advance.
I get no such problems. Maybe your player needs a service. Best of luck.
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I don’t have one yet. Just asking what owners think.
I have one of the original DMP- UB900 THX certified players.
It’s been flawless since ownership, a long time and many hundreds if not thousands hours of play.
Just wondering if the better chassis, etc… of the 9000 is worth it. Oh, it would be new too so hopefully many years playback remains.
No vibration or noise. The fan,if it is running,is inaudible.
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Absolutely no noise or vibration. However, with the upgrading to HDR10+, Dolby Vision, Advanced HCX processor, HDR Optimiser and all the audio outputs and your only question is vibration?
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Yep!
Another thing the 9000 will give you is better audio quality.
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The DP9000 is glorious. The only problem is I have ended up spending thousands of pounds on new blu ray and UHD discs. I have it with Anthem AV amp and full surroumd sound 2 subs. The audio is superb. It has two ports HDMI, one for sound, one for picture. I have upgraded alot of my collection to either blu rays or to UHDs.
I love mine in my system. It’s a solid bit of kit as well. No issues at all. Failed to play one disc only out of 100s.
It’s worth it !
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No issues at all. I remove the back of the AV unit as it was getting hot. It needs air for heat to dissipate. It makes no sound at all.
Once this was done no issues. It may have been fine, but I have Anthem AV amp, Sky box and Zoneripper NAS in the AV unit so ripped off hardboard back completely. Will reinforce unit with brackets at some point!
Very very pleased with Panasonic DP UB9000.
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