the oppo 83 special edition as a transport

hi tvad:

i did not audition the ps audio combo before ipurchased it. thus i took a chance based upon other factors. i should have known better.

Thank you Tvad for exposing this guy as a person who lacks credibility. Additionally, as a person who claims to be a reviewer, Mrtennis is asking some real ignorant questions.

hi vman71:

you make claims without any evidence. you are entitled to your opinion, but i explained that i made a mistake. we all make them. i did not say that the ps audio combo was inferior, the point of the thread is to compare the oppo to the pas audio. if you were more careful in your reading and more forgiving as a person you wouldn't be making unsubstantiated claims.

Mrtennis, I have used the Oppo not SE as a transport to drive two different dacs. One was the Minerva and the other the Exemplar/Xindak Dac5. I also used two other transports into both dacs. One was the Exemplar/Shanling SCD-3000 and the other their music server. In my opinion the Oppo is a very poor transport although as a player it is good. Perhaps their digital out is not well implemented.

Mr. T

Given your initial perhaps hasty phrases which were littered with misspelled words I'm thinking also someone here was quite angry about something when this thread was begun.

At what? Themselves or the player? The Dealership? Or that it's Black Walnut and not Black Cherry flavored?

Or maybe someone was under the influence of other things...

I withhold statements of dislike to a thing until I've tried about every way I can to integrate a thing into my system by way of cables and isolation right off.

buying a thing outright and applying subjective accounts to it's performance should carry a bit more weight, especially if the purchase was like that of any other common ordinary purchase anyone might make, sans any extraordinary discount... as Tvad alluded too.

If it's got issues and was bought new... send it in to PSA for a check up first. If they maintain it's all good, and it's then a matter of simple preferences, well gee... I feel ya man... but that's not PSA, the dealers' or anyone else's fault now is it?
One other option could be that you send it along to Mr. Cullen for some upgrades... or mods, or simply attempt to resell it.

Send it in... work on the setup... and/or sell it if it's not your cup of tea. But do try to be square on any account of it as being too subjectively oriented and rooted into preffs instead of straight ahead performance as compared to some likewise thing you've owned or used extensively. the former aspiration simply isn't going to be appropriate.

So like Johnny Storm says after scorching the Heavens over New york city for a while: "Flame off".