Creek, Rega, Oppo CD Player/DAC

I bought an Oppo 105 it trounced my Ayre CX-7. So that sort of kills that argument as although the Ayre was getting on a bit in it's day it cost three times the price of the Oppo.

Plus you have the benefits of the new formats-the HD Tracks version of Kind Of Blue is the best I have heard, the new Mofi Dylan Desire SACD is the best version I've heard-Queen's A Night At The Opera on Blu Ray is the best I've heard.

One player and it does a lot of things very well.

Indeed didn't one Audiogoner on here-one of the ones with a system off the scale of us mere mortals tells us that the Oppo was damn excellent in his system? Yes he did.

The Oppo works very well in my system, both as a CD/SACD player and as Blu ray player. It replaced a Cambridge Audio 840C and to me it is quite a bit better in Redbook. Sure wish someone would buy my 840C.

As far as I can see, no one has said that the Rega is worth over twice the price of the Oppo (and the Creek has not even been released yet). I'm ordering the Oppo and giving the Dragonfly to my wife for her Mac laptop. This is my office, and I will probably be listinging mosty to Pandora or a disc/thumb drive in the background so why spend the extra money. Plus I'm interested in Blu-Ray audio discs, and the Creek & Rega won't play those. Thanks to all who responded.

I can't speak for the OPPO BDP-105 but I do have the BDP-103 and prefer CDs when played on my Marantz SA-15S2b.
Go figure.

All the best,
Nonoise

On the same note as NONOISE...I prefer the Marantz sound over the OPPO 105. Much more like music than hifi...with the sa8004 or 8005 or sa-11s3.you have the added flexibility of digital inputs (no DSD for 8004 or sa-11s3...yet) including iPod ...I have the 8004 and sa-11s3...they are high value machines in their price points and by far better built...no video but who cares. only other is no multi channel audio...this does not sound like an issue for you