best audio from a Blu Ray player

Does anyone have any experience with having the Oppo player modified to improve audio performance?

Knowing you're coming from the wonderful world of stereo music listening... let me just point out that if you're going to listen to music through your HT system then none of the suggestions above will sound as good as a dedicated audiophile CD player. (And yes I've heard the Denons, and yes, my Cary 303/300 is better on Redbook too, although it don't play SACD or DVD-A.)

There are several mods available for the Oppo, but it's a good transport so I'd just spend the $$s on a good outboard DAC.

Compared to a good eddicated CD player, the Oppo's just OK on Redbook CD though much better than that on SACD, but it's definitely on the level of a budget player for CD playback. I wouldn't listen through the Oppo for CDs unless I ran it through an outboard DAC (or maybe the DACs on a AVR like the Arcam AVR350 or AVR600.

For movie soundtracks, the Oppo BDP-83 is just fine, the Blu-Ray video is grand and its DVD upconversion is excellent. It can also be made to be region free - what's not to like? No need to spend more. But as a CD player, it won't hold a candle to your Cal L15 - it's a completely different flavor - and opposite flavor.

You can use a PS3, with an onkyo 875 you can use the Onkyo to pair with the PS3

Ayre has teamed with Oppo to produce the Ayre DX-5 all format Blu-Ray player with USB audio input. Read the white paper on the Ayre QB-9 which is the DAC used in the player.

The Ayre CX-7e of 2002 has had one of the lowest measured jitter readings for years and this is an improvement!