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In Reply to: RE: The BDP-550 is a stopgap... posted by oscar on June 23, 2009 at 14:21:55
If so, that is a problem for sure. Audio seems to work much better via HDMI for the lesser-priced players, I have been quite happy with it in general, never thought I would be.
People say the Oppo BDP-83 has a half-decent analog section. But at $500, and I don't know of any cheaper for "good", that is somewhat out of the price range the OP wanted. Also, Denon is coming out very shortly with a $500 BDP that will be very close in features (and analog section) to the Oppo...presume it will street in the $400 ballpark. They will have another model that's $800 IIRC that's supposed to kick it up a notch. So it looks like $500 is the entry MSRP for a BDP with attention paid to the analog section.
Personally, at this point, I prefer NOT to pay for an analog section in a BDP, nor a multi-ch input analog section in an AVR/pre-pro. Because they cost a lot to be good, and they both have to be good to make it worthwhile. Whereas HDMI is cheap, keep the audio digital as long as possible...but give me a great AVR analog output section. I prefer to keep my analog signals totally out of any digital processor box.
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