Is OPPO worth the inflated price?

Already been said but here's my views.

Having owned ( or still own) just about every OPPO bdp/udp ever made I feel I have a fairly decent perspective.

For video and movies any of the later OPPO are hard to beat. Fantastic soundtracks for movies over HDMI into a 7.1 processor.

As for music from its own analog outputs?
Even the much lauded 105d and 205 left me cold and an,older $130 Pioneer player bettered them.

Used as a transport over spdif it is fine,but then so is a $20 Samsung bdp in my system!

Value for money?

Obviously subjective but it was and remains a $1295 universal player so 2 or 3 times the price?

Heck no......

@uberwaltz. Glad your sense of humor is in great condition : re $130 Pioneer ;)

@uberwaltz . Unless you’re possibly using a very old Pioneer receiver - from which everything sounds lush and mellow :)

Actually deadly serious on the $130 Pioneer. That's what I paid used from eBay, not sure what it's original msrp was decades ago.

My point was that the OPPO as a top flight CD player from its analog outs ( RCA or Xlr) was not top flight at all imho.

Not common to be accused of having a sense of humour .... Lmao.


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My BDP103 sounded better played through my Auralic Vega DAC than the BDP105D played straight to my preamp.  I have also owned a Modwright modded BDP-95 an Oppo HA1 headphone amp and now have a UDP203 that replaced the BDP103.  I don't think I've heard the 205, but find it hard to imagine that it sounds substantially better than the HA1 (which had the best DAC of the Oppos that I have heard) or BDP105/105D.

The thing I liked most about the Oppos was the streaming apps that came with them and when the UDP series came out without the apps I lost interest.  I did break down and buy a UPD203 at a slightly inflated price so that I could have 4K when I upgraded my TV, but I don't use it for music at all really and have a BlueSound Node 2 for Tidal/Spotify/Qobuz/etc. and Roku for Netflix.  The only thing I use the UDP203 for is Blu-Rays and 4K movies.

My Marantz KI-Pearl takes care of the little silver music discs and blows the Oppo away.