Archimago wrote: > I did some measurements of the Oppo BDP-105 late last week which I'll > post in the days ahead (hint - it's really good!). For now, I'd like to > put some pressure on ASUS to fix the Essence One firmware - upsampling > is broken!
Slightly off topic: I've owned the Oppo BDP-83 (the first Oppo blu-ray player) for about 3 years and it's a very good player. Sounds great, plays almost any kind of disc and it makes regular DVD's look great. I do a have few minor complaints: the disc drawer sometimes does not open without having to press the eject button several times, the Ethernet functions (the BDP-83 does not have Wi-Fi) do not work so I disconnected the Ethernet and Oppo has stopped updating the firmware several years ago (a big no-no). My biggest complaint is not with Oppo but the blu-ray format which is that with almost all blu-ray discs one cannot bypass the damn previews and other other annoying crap that they put at the beginning of the disc. And if one stops a blu-ray movie in the middle most of the discs do not allow to resume playing at the point you left off - it's usually back the beginning and having to manually skip all those damn previews again. Anyway my full Home Theater setup should read: Touch/Oppo BDP-83/WD TV Live media streamer/cable box -> Marantz SR8400 HTR -> Energy Veritas 2.1 (front), Totem Signature (center), Mission 780 (rear) & Linn subwoofer with a 47" LG LCD HDTV The Oppo is connected to the LG HDTV via HDMI and to the Marantz via both coax digital (for regular DVDs with DTS or Dolby Digital) and 5.1 analog (for SACD/DVD-Audio/blu-ray high resolution playback). The saddest thing about blu-ray is that the vast majority of people have really, really, really bad audio playback systems, if they have a separate audio system at all because blu-ray audio is usually high resolution and very good. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97950 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
