Oppo Nuforce BDP-93NE

Additional follow-up. After receiving the Nuforce93NE on March 31st I've been playing it without keeping count of the exact hours[after the first 20 hours had passed]. There has been a further improvement in the sound quality but I can't say just excly when it occured. It struck me this week as I replayed Shelby Lynn's "Just A Little Lovin'"..the very first cd I played on the machine when it arrived. Now allowing for my hearing becoming familiar with the sound of the unit still surprised me when I was down the hall on the computer while the disc played and there was an apparent ease and more texturing fullness of timbre, just more there all with a greatly emhanced sense of flow and ease. I had to sit down and listen. The Truth Accoring to Ruthie Foster, a fav cd of mine, followed and yup. SOmething had changed for the better here. The emotion of Ruthie's voice was obvious and sung with an enhanced ease I had not heard before. It has continued on every disc I've listened to since. I guess you really do hear this unit at its very best after a few weeks. Go figure...At least that is what has happend to me here in my system. YMMV. Now back to the Stanley CUp, cheers, everyone, lloyd

Glad to hear it! these are indeed 500hr burn in units and well worth the wait, I previously thought about 300 should do it and stopped counting, but when it hit around 450 still new details where emerging! However not as pronounced as the other milestones but caught my attention!

Just received mine yesterday, out of the box I am actually quite impressed with it's analogue playback. My system is very transparent which is great for evaluating new players. Well done Nuforce! Will be buring in the player over the next couple of weeks. My only gripe is no dedicated L/R stereo outputs, for a reference component this should have dedicated XLR connections.

You will probably find it actually sounds better after you've played it for awhile. It will suddenly dawn on you how the sound has simply opened up and flows. To hear this replay your first few disc again and you'll hear what I'm saying. Pretty amazing isn't it? Enjoy and let us know how it's going. cheers, lloyd. PS I do agree with you on the lack of dedicated L/R stereo outputs. I suppose Oppo had to keep cost down.

3 questions:

1. Has anyone actually had the chance to compare a stock 95 vs a Nu Force 93 (I'm interested in both cd & SACD/DVD-A)?

2. Has anyone had the chance to compare the standard Nu Force 93 vs the "Extreme" Nu Force 93?

3. Does anyone know if the Oppo BDP-95 region free firmware (DVD only, doesn't make Blu R free) on ebay will also work with the Nu Force's?

I've actually emailed Nu Force 2x with no reply. There local dealer was kind enough to respond, but they are not providing him with demos of the Blu's so he hasn't heard them!

I hope the reason Nu Force hasn't replied (it's been several weeks) is spam filters & not crummy customer service!