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Choosing a CD or SACD player over my Oppo BDP 95

Greetings! This is a branch off of an earlier thread. I am considering an dedicated cd and/or sacd player as un upgrade over my Oppo BDP 95 universal player. Consensus seems to be that this will provide "better" red book playback which is 95% of my listening. As it is nearly impossible to do live listening comparisons where I live, I ask my fellow ’Goners for their input and suggestions. My system consists of said Oppo, Magnepan .7’s and Parasound Halo integrated.
Thanks!
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bpoletti
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"This is a SIGNIFICANT step up in performance over the Oppo"

"Ha! I doubt that seriously!! You would have to spend well over $2500 to get a "better" sounding DAC...really, give it a good source and you will see. And not a wireless or TOSLINK connected source either! Use a USB audio 2.0 connected source for native DSD capability.

Matt M"


No, it doesn't take much to beat BDP95.  And that little DAC is quite good.  In a blind A-B, even the little Onkyo C-7030 smokes the BPD95.

Ha!  Crom laughs at your comment! 


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jafant
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Audia Flight
theothergreg
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jafant, did you have a chance to audition an Audia Flight?
dbphd
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jafant,

The Bryston SP3 does have XLR input capability, but I use HDMI from the Oppo and Sony disc players because I think the analog processing of the SP3 is superior.  Analog from my Ayre C-5xeMP goes through a Parasound JC 2 BP, and I'm really happy with the sound so I haven't tried XLR from the Ayre through the SP3.  Front LR from the SP3 is passed through the JC 2 BP to access a pair of JC 1 mono blocks.

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jafant
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Very nice system- dbphd.
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