Magnetar

@asin 

which model did you purchase?

It was the UDP 900

sorry for late reply 

was not checking this forum during holiday 

IMO the Oppo 205 is still the king. The Magnetar 900 does not have as many digital inputs as the 205 and the dac chip for the surround domain is a lower quality one than in the 205. Very similar players other than that. 

@arnold_h 

thanks for the input.  Your point about the different chips for the surround domain intrigues me.  Do they use a separate chip for each channel?  Or one chip for two vs another for multichannel?

The Oppo 205 uses a 9038Pro for the stereo outputs and a 9038Pro for the surround sound outputs. The Magnetar uses a 9038Pro for the stereo outputs and a 9028 for the surround outputs.