Oppo Ceasing production

I agree with falconquest that physical media will survive, but it will become a thin market for new releases. As we all know there is a time period where no LPs were manufactured for most artists because the market was insufficient to support recording companies pressing vinyl and CD. The same will happen to Redbook; eventually we will have to download newly released music. My 17 year olds collect vinyl; they have one of my previous systems in their room. Their friends come over to our house sometimes to listen to music. They think it's cool that music is always playing at our house and that it sounds great...but, they also have never seen it happen anywhere else. FWIW these kids are buying video game soundtracks on vinyl and that might be where their generation decides to invest its audio dollars--they believe in headphones!      

I've been meaning to buy a 105 for over 2 years, so this prompted me to order a 205 from Amazon.  Looking forward to listening to my SACDs and DADs again.  The headphone jack looks good too.  We'll see how it stacks up to my EAR Acute sonically.  And I did need a new DVD player as well.  

Watch the movie “Idiocracy” and ask yourself just how different the society in the movie is from our prsent one.  You will have your answer as to why a company that builds high-quality, fine equipment has a hard time staying in business.  

genesis777 - That's a shame...I bought a Sonica Dac and was quite impressed with it.

"Was", past tense? Just curious why your impression should change, when - IMO - it shouldn't.

trelja - I can't even imagine 200 high-end audio dealers existing today across all the brands.

Certain manufacturers, such as Oppo and Schiit, have already figured out that use of a dealer is often counter productive from a profitability perspective. This is the reason they sell direct to the end user/consumer. Win-win for both, and a big reason Oppo was successful. 

Probably has nothing to with the "death " of physical media.  If so, why wouldn't Oppo just release a streamer? 

More than likely has to with trade and tariffs. What the future holds; we don't know.  But, probably forced with the decision to raise their prices or cease production.  They chose the latter.