Is OPPO worth the inflated price?

My BDP103 sounded better played through my Auralic Vega DAC than the BDP105D played straight to my preamp.  I have also owned a Modwright modded BDP-95 an Oppo HA1 headphone amp and now have a UDP203 that replaced the BDP103.  I don't think I've heard the 205, but find it hard to imagine that it sounds substantially better than the HA1 (which had the best DAC of the Oppos that I have heard) or BDP105/105D.

The thing I liked most about the Oppos was the streaming apps that came with them and when the UDP series came out without the apps I lost interest.  I did break down and buy a UPD203 at a slightly inflated price so that I could have 4K when I upgraded my TV, but I don't use it for music at all really and have a BlueSound Node 2 for Tidal/Spotify/Qobuz/etc. and Roku for Netflix.  The only thing I use the UDP203 for is Blu-Rays and 4K movies.

My Marantz KI-Pearl takes care of the little silver music discs and blows the Oppo away.

I own the 205 and use it several times a week watching 4K movies through a 4K firestick. The video is outstanding!

However, for Cd I use the PS Direct Stream player/transport to my PS DS Dac.

The 205 is great for movies but the PS unit is outstanding for Cd’s.
For an all purpose one piece component it is pretty good. Maybe not $3500 good but more than the original price of $1200.

That’s probably why Oppo dropped the line, not enough profit per unit.

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You can contact Oppo if you call them they were still making them 
in small lots you prepay and they send you one ,or they will tell you 
when you getorder one ,give them a call ,samepricing.

There is the Sony 1000 that is very good ,and Yamaha has some 
very good players as well as Pionerr elite for under $1000

Please excuse me for breaking into this discussion.  Hearing this discussion about your OPPO 205 reminded me of my situation.  However, I do not know how to originate a discussion.  

I have an OPPO UPD 203 connected to an ARCAM AVR550 with a pair of Paradigm Prestige 85F towers.  When I set up my system I decided to stream TIDAL.  To eliminate signal breakup, I have direct wired the modem in my family room to my Apple TV in the family room by using CAD 6 cable and I direct wired the Apple TV using CAD6 to the back of my ARCAM.  Since then, I do not find myself using my OPPO to play CD's.  I wonder if anyone knows if I am sacrificing sound quality by streaming TIDAL as compared to playing CD's through my OPPO.  Also, when I do use the OPPO the dealer I purchased the ARCAM from suggested  I  connect the OPPO  with an RCA cable when playing CD's to improve sound quality.  However, doesn't this utilize the DAC in the OPPO rather the DAC in the OPPO?  This said, which has the better DAC, the OPPO or the ARCAM.  I also have the OPPO connected by HDMI to watch movies and I wonder when listening to CD's if I would improve sound quality by using the HDMI connection?