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Oppo BDP-105D just for CDs?

When my nice older Arcam CD player died I did not replace it with comparable equipment since I mostly listen to my CDs ripped anyway. I have a $15 thrift store DVD for rare CD listening. It doesn't sound terrible but I'm sure a quality CD player would sound better. I just haven't wanted to spend money on one.

Now, I have an opportunity to get an Oppo BDP-105D blu-ray player for little or no money. It is currently part of a high end home theater system.

I have no interest in blu-ray or home theater whatsoever.

So what I'm wondering is would the CD playback be high quality from this unit? (I know nothing about Oppo except that I think they are defunct now). It says it will also play SACDs as well. I'm assuming it will sound worlds better than my Toshiba thrift store DVD player so getting the Oppo is not the issue. The issue is that I see these units for sale for around $800 or more used. If the CD playback is high end and without serious compromise then I will just keep the Oppo and use it as a dedicated CD player. But if CD playback is just so-so and all the value is in the blu-ray component of it then I can sell it and for $800 I assume I could get a better dedicated CD/SACD player.

Any thoughts or advice much appreciated.
n80
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geph0007
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I tried and tried to want the 105D to be the one.   I compared it side by side to several players in my room with regular CDs. countless times .    Marantz 8005, Rega Saturn, Sony 333ES 5 disc , Marantz UD 7007 UD, Denon 2012 last two blue ray players.   Tried different cables and power cords.  I will say the Oppo is well built and does  sound good as a CD player but the sound is more grey,.  The background is not as black    For example on the Marantz  and Denon units everything has more body and dimension. More real  The oppo may have been slightly more open.  If some on is looking for a do everything player that is it but there are better choices for just CD playback in that range
gelle
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I thought my 105 sounded amazing. Just for an experiment I bypassed the internal DAC and connected it via CoAx to my Orchid DAC. CD’s sound twice as good. 
n80 OP
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Well, if CDs literally sounded twice as good through another DAC I expect that CDs will sound a THOUSAND times better through the Oppo than they do through my Toshiba DVD player!
n80 OP
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I got the Oppo.

CD sound quality is far better than the thrift store Toshiba DVD player. Fantastic really.

I have not found the remote or the wifi stick that came with it. Cannot change settings without those so I have not been able to use its DAC for playing off my music server but suspect it will sound much better than the Schiit Modi 2.

The remote and wifi stick are likely in a box somewhere in a storage building. Needle in a haystack but I’ll find them eventually.

I can hard wire it into my router and plug it into a TV and work on settings that way with the iPhone app which is still available.

If it could stream Amazon music this would be a complete (and completely free) solution for me.

But, even if it won’t and even if I only use it as a CD player then it is still a huge step up from what I had.

PS: I also got a pair of Aerial Acoustic 6T towers and 5T bookshelf speakers with Transparent cables.

There was other stuff in the estate. High end home theater stuff which I do not want. Bryston amp, Classe pre amp, gorgeous JL audio powered subs. I'm an selling that stuff for the executor.


n80 OP
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Update: Using universal remote to run the Oppo and it works fine.

Got my music server plugged into the Oppo and I believe its DAC sounds superior to the Schiit.

Will probably get a long ethernet cable and hardwire it into Oppo from my router to test if I can run Amazon Music through it. This will also allow me to use the Oppo app on my iPhone but if it won’t run Amazon Music then that is fairly pointless.
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