Oppo BD83 as a transport

I agree with Buff and would add that the BD83 can be made into a good transport if the engineer designs the D/A around it like Exemplar.

it uses a Sony laser pickup... it can only be so good...

That's what I figured, but it never hurts to check. The OPPO has gotten such great praise lately. And, surprise, it was good enough for Lexicon to sell for $3000.00 or so after they put their name on it. It makes you wonder if the new Levinson players selling for $10,000.00 or so are trying the same trick. Has anyone checked under the hood?

Use your laptop as a CD player to better computer CD/DVD drives uoy need to spend $1500+ on a stand alone CD player, which will be sort of silly. So yes use your PC or Laptop drives for both music and movies.