Oppo Ceasing production
It really makes no sense. When you have a name and a product that has market respect... there is marketable value! Why isn’t the audio products business being sold to another respected brand who would probably like to have oppo??? Assuming they actually just walk away, what CD player or cd/dac combo can you buy for $1300 that is as good or better? |
Since you old folk are feeling without hope for the future of high end audio because your Blue ray drives are becoming defunct, I wrote a post in Misc Audio about my (a millennial's) journey from low-end to high-end audio. https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/a-millennial-recounts-their-journey-from-low-end-to-high-end-... TLDR: Thanks to Hi-fi streaming, high-end audio won't be dead anytime soon. |
Everything that has been said here on the OPPO situation is on the mark. One additional comment. OPPO as with many companies actually assembles their equipment in China. Consider the tariffs that have been imposed recently and how they add to the cost of production. The uncertainty of our world economic situation would give any company pause in planning their future. Note that OPPO stayed in the Chinese market. Frankly OPPO could have charged more for their products and still sold them in the USA. However the failure of UHD (No discs) makes selling players difficult to non audiophiles. If the CD goes the route of vinyl ( it appears to be doing that) then shifting the focus of OPPO players to the audiophile market would be the right move. Which is exactly what they have been doing for the last several years. I agree with the members who said that just too many factors made it difficult for OPPO to make money. A real shame when we lose innovative USA company of this caliber. |
I ordered a 203 yesterday. I use a 105 as a Digital transport into a Bryston DAC3 in my two channel system. The Oppo will output DSD from SACD into the Bryston over HDMI. I have two HT systems in my house and had been toying with the idea of moving the the 105 into one and replacing the 2 channel with a 203, since I am just using the 105 as a transport and am not benefiting from the DAC of the 105. The announcement made me pull the trigger. I will now replace several boxes in the HT system and send the Bluesound Node 2 in the HT system into the DAC of the 105. I also own the PM3 phones and consider them a great value. This has really bummed me out |
