No, you wouldn't be crazy, Ric did some great things for my Pioneer DV-58AV. Ultimately it's not near as good as my Playback Designs MPS-5, that costs around 6-times as much.
I was talking with Ric about his 32-bit mods to the Oppo vs. buying the MPS-5. He said, "Get the MPS-5 if you can afford it." Without having heard Ric's moded Oppo, I can only guess that it's very good, but short of state of the art.
Talk to Ric about the best model Oppo from the point of view of ease of use and non-glitchyness. Mine would sometimes play the CD layer on a hybrid SACD, even though I set my preferences for SACD. The Pioneer (I've got Oppo, Pioneer and Playback Designs) was much easier to use and flawlessly played my preferred layers of SACD and DVD-A. Still, the Oppo is a great value.
Dave
I was talking with Ric about his 32-bit mods to the Oppo vs. buying the MPS-5. He said, "Get the MPS-5 if you can afford it." Without having heard Ric's moded Oppo, I can only guess that it's very good, but short of state of the art.
Talk to Ric about the best model Oppo from the point of view of ease of use and non-glitchyness. Mine would sometimes play the CD layer on a hybrid SACD, even though I set my preferences for SACD. The Pioneer (I've got Oppo, Pioneer and Playback Designs) was much easier to use and flawlessly played my preferred layers of SACD and DVD-A. Still, the Oppo is a great value.
Dave