Video Asylum

Posted by chacodude (A) on June 18, 2006 at 11:59:07

In Reply to: Audio quality of Oppo DVD player posted by hifiuser on June 8, 2006 at 19:48:01:

Like you, I had a hard time finding a lot of info on the
audio section prior to purchase. I bought the OPDV971H
after reading the rest of the posts and glad I did.

In my experience, the Oppo does not match the quality
of even the HK DVD22 I was using previously for audio.
Ended up stealing my dac from my other music only system
for sound reproduction. Very happy with the sound now in
my setup,finally.

Oppo performance has been great on my SXRD, and with
great all tube (modified Bottlehead) setup now the music
on CD and DVD is as good in my rig. May be good excuse to
save up for an audio note dac kit for my other rig!

Oppo support is terrific. Answers to questions come within
hours it seems no matter the day or hour I have sent them.
When confronting Oppo with how great the video is but the
lack in better audio they assured me that down the road
this will be worked on. Will it live up to an audiophile's
expectations in todays iPod world? Remains to be seen. My
solution so far has been scratching together a DIY set.
Hope this helps

Andrew