Resale prices for Oppo Digital Universal Players

Great feedback everyone.  Thanks for your excellent insights and information.   Very interesting and rather unprecedented.  In all of my years in this great hobby of high end audio (40), I don't recall seeing source components sold at higher prices than at their original offerings.  That speaks volumes about the quality and mystique of the OPPO Digital line.  I love riaa_award_collectors comment that you don't buy 10-15 year old CD players.  Absolutely correct yet Ianrmark sold two 10 year old units in a day !!!  It floors me to learn that riaa sold 12-15 UDP-205s at that price range.  Absolutely amazing.  I didn't realize the 105 can make SACD copies.  I do use the 103 to play my small collection of SACDs and it sounds terrific plus I also have a Marantz UD5007.  Both great sources for the $$$.  I use both so that one doesn't wear out sooner than the other.  That's the fun of this business.  It's good to know that sonicjoy's BDP-83 has lasted 10 years.  Excellent info.  

Ya its still working for now. Thats why I bought the CD transport. Hoping the OPPO will last awhile longer just playing the occasional Blu-ray disc.

The Oppo 205s are barely worth their original asking price.  They have an DAC, and weak analog section and power supplies.  The outrageous asking prices for the new Oppos are far above what they are worth.

Don't believe the hype!

I purchased a 205 shortly before they were discontinued based upon all the positive reviews and feedback to replace an aging Sony SCD-777ES. This was the first and last time I will ever purchase a component without listening to it first. I was very disappointed with the sound quality. It wasn’t even decent, let alone great, considering all the professional reviews I read. My old Sony (a great sounding player IMO) was significantly better. While I sat back and thought about how best I could get rid of this dramatically overrated black box, a shocking thing started to happen. The prices started going crazy. The higher they went, the more demand there was. I almost sold it too soon. I held off until prices went over 3k and then I quickly listed it and sold it. What a relief. Not only did I get rid of it, I made an impressive profit. For all of you considering purchasing an used Oppo, don’t, unless you just want it for its DVD capabilities.

Although I don’t subscribe to his philosophy, in the words of Gordon Gecko *Wall Street) "Greed is good". 2 more well known, and more applicable quotes are; There’s a sucker born every minute, and A fool and his money are soon parted


That as background: I bought 105 new at least 8 years ago, strictly to play SACDs. My red book player was a Pioneer PD 65 that had Musical Concepts mods, including an outboard power supply. I used it as a transport with various DACs. About 2 years ago, while surfing E-baye I came across a pure silver replacement jumper attached to a Rhodium Furutech IEC that connected to the 105 power supply. It was expensive for what it was, but DAM! I then upgraded the crappy power supply to one on eBay (~$160). Both of these transformed my 105 into a serious red book player, which I really only discovered after my PD 65 finally died. I replaced it with a Marantz HD CD 1, a cd player but with all the newest outputs. I never listened to it as a player, instead connecting it to my Audio Alchemy DDP-1 + PS 5 power supply, and was a very happy camper

One day I decided to listen to it for red book using the variable out volume control. Thanks to the 2 power upgrades, I no longer listen to the Marantz, or use the AA

hth