New Oppo BDP-95 better than the McIntosh MVP-881?


For the money, the 29 lb. McIntosh MVP-881 Universal Blu Ray player is one of the biggest rip offs in Blu Ray DVD history.
Looking inside the unit reveals not much under the hood for
$ 8K. The power supply is skimpy and it has three cooling
fans. One on the bottom, one on the rear, and one on the inside. Very, very hot! What I call Scrooge engineering.
The Mac uses the Sabre32 ESS9016 24x Dacs. Five total. The new Oppo BDP-95 coming out in February uses the Sabre32 ESS9018's 32x Dacs. Two total with a beefy power supply, selling for $ 1K. I hope the Oppo knocks the hell out of the McIntosh, Marantz, Denon, Ayre, and Lexicon Universal players selling between $4 and $10K. For McIntosh to put out a player that is hotter than any other high end player
on the market, is a sign that their engineering has gone down hill and their glory days are over.
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Hi, all I ordered my 95 from AA, on March 10th and recieved it on the 12th free shipping, they also had the Nuforce 93 as well and a couple of 95's and of course the 93. I bought this to replace my Denon 5900 and Pioneer 51fd and out of the box it has performed it's task with high marks. Bested my Denon on 2 channel analog outs connected to my Anthem avm 20 v2. the ESS Saber dac's are incredible at what they do for digital playback, no matter multi or 2 channel. Mind you this is out the box,in about 300hr of burn in. I get the feeling the big boys should put there tails between there legs!and say Uncle!!
Got mine yesterday, letting it burn in now. Performed great on the movie last night! Hoping to consolidate and get rid of a MF A308cd.

Happy customer here.
Recieved mine yesterday. Fantastic HDMI picture even better than my Oppo 83 SE. The surround analog Audio was pretty good.
The Balanced out in audio quality thus far was no where near my Cary Pro. And to be honest, I dont believe it will ever reach that level even with hundreds of hours of break in, so dont expect it to be the Dragon slayer...

But, I use the component for recording to my DVR and it did not work, so mine must be defective at least in that area.
Oppo is sending out a new unit.
You guys may want to try the component out also.
Received mine yesterday. Fantastic HDMI picture even better than my Oppo 83 SE. The surround analog Audio was pretty good.
The Stereo Balanced out in audio quality thus far was no where near my Cary Pro. And to be honest, I dont believe it will ever reach that level even with hundreds of hours of break in, so dont expect it to be the Dragon slayer...

But, I use the component out for recording to my DVR and it did not work, so mine must be defective at least in that area.
Oppo is sending out a new unit.
You guys may want to try the component out also.