mbhauzer
New Head-Fier
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So what's the verdict on the Oppo 93? Ordered one for the family for Christmas and a Blu-ray of Super 8. Hope the TV does it justice...
I think the Oppo93 is fantastic. It may not always be the smoothest interface wise but it is fantastic. The fact that you can use it for CD, DVD, HDCD,SACD, DVD-audio, BD etc all in one unit is fantastic. I have my entire music collection burn onto 2 BD-ROMs which is where most of my music comes from .
The saber32 DAC should get some attention on head-fi because it is first rate as far as I can tell. Unlike the saber32 DAC in my Marantz AVR, it easily plays everything up to 24/192.
I have my oppo set up to do all the dolby and special processing and then send the signal over HDMI to my receiver. I have a digital coax sending music to my AGD NFB-1 DAC and stereo ouputs going right to my Apex Peak heaadamp - so it's the center of my music system.
If you only have it sending stuff to an AVR over HDMI for processing then you may not notice much of a difference with it.
I want to clarify that the BDP-93 uses the Cirrus Logic CS4382 Dac, not the Sabre 32. The Sabre is used in the BDP-95.
I've got the Nuforce Xtreme Edition BDP-93 which still uses the CS4382 and it sounds quite good. I've never heard the stock player so don't know how much of an improvement it is over that. But being used to higher quality sources I wanted to get as good sounding a blu-ray player as I could within my parameters and it has not disappointed. The Oppo is a very flexible player. I have been able to stream lots of my media over wifi including flac and movie files. I haven't put many discs into the actual tray due to this, it's pretty awesome. It's basically acting like a network DAC right now when I want music, and a video streamer when I want to watch something.