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Digital output or Analog output from Blu Ray playe


If you intend only to use the HDMI, component and/or optical & coaxial audio outputs, and NOT it’s analog outputs in conjunction with your HT receiver or PROC/PREAMP, should it matter then about the players digital to analog conversion abilities?

For ex. The New Oppo BDP 95 touts a better build power supply, and a reputedly vastly better set of audio DACs, over it’s sibling/brethren BDP 93. Otherwise, they are the same box.

If only digital interfaces are then used on either device, the owner of the more expensive BDP 95 is losing out, right? Or…. There’s that added $500 purchase price, and the cost for at least one pr of analog ICs to actually realize the full benny’s of the mo pricey 95…. RIGHT?
blindjim
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bacardi
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I have an Oppo BDP 83SE now and waiting for a trade-up for the 95 model. I use the analogue in the Oppo for movies and music. Sounds really good but kind of wondering how much improvement one HDMI specifically for audio and one for video would sound opposed to one HDMI for both.

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blindjim OP
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Bacardi

I'm not so sure that would improve anything.... other than tie up two cables instead of one.

I've done something along those lines by using the HDMI for video only, and the coax for sound. the diff was so marginal as to not be a concern... and it tied up two cables. The coax being a very expensive one.

the notion I got on the 93 & 95's twin HDMI outs is for use in separate zones, or as separate incidents, or just differing displays.

Of course, who knows... maybe twin HDMI cables can help. I'd simply bet aginst it... all things being equal.
jwm
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I was wondering the same thing. I just bought a used Classe SSP-800 to replace my 300. I bought an Oppo 95 to replace my 83SE. I will write back to inform when I get it to see if the picture is better going direct to my Pioneer vs the Classe giving me the picture. By the way my Blu Ray movies sound much better through the Classe 800 than using the RCA outputs of the 83SE. I get much more dynamic sound and deeper bass, more light weight through the analog outputs.
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Jmw, Are you saying you get better digital or better analogue sound out of the Classe SSP 800 rather than your Oppo 83SE. The 95 is much better in the analogue and the power supply is way better than the 83SE.

Regards Bacardi
jwm
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Movies sound much better through hdmi than going through analog outputs of the Oppo 83se
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