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heiney9
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As part of a package deal for a pair MIT Shotgun S2's and MIT Shotgun AC1 power cord was an Oppo BDP-93. Doing a little research I see the Oppo is an older model. Was this a decent unit? I was going to turn around and sell it, but if it's one of the better Oppo's, maybe I'll keep it.
Use it as a transport for the cd's I have that aren't on the streaming service. And to play music dvd's.
I remember back in the day Oppo was all the rage. I don't hear a lot about them today.
TIA
H9
Use it as a transport for the cd's I have that aren't on the streaming service. And to play music dvd's.
I remember back in the day Oppo was all the rage. I don't hear a lot about them today.
TIA
H9
"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
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Oppo 105 and 205 series are still way up there in asking price on the auction site. 83, 93 and 203 series not as much, but still more than you would think for their age. With only one or two companies even selling players in the last five years some of the older players are getting dollars for their age.
Keep it play it and let your ears decide.
https://www.soundandvision.com/content/review-oppo-bdp-93-blu-ray-player -
Around 17 or so years ago, Skip and I A/B'd this to a stock Jolida JD-100 at his place. Same connections, same PC. The Oppo didn't fare so well and we both overwhelmingly preferred the Jolida for many reasons.
I couldn't figure out for the life of me why the OPPO was all the rage back then...it just sucked all of the life out of the music, in comparison.
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The BDP-93 was introduced around the 2010-2011 timeframe. It made some improvements on the earlier BDP-83. The BDP-95 was the next level up from the BDP-93 at the time and is more desirable like the 105 is more desirable than the 103 and the 205 is more desirable than the 203.
The main purpose of the BDP-93 is as a "do it all" Blu-Ray/DVD player to be connected to an AV receiver. It will also play audio over HDMI. It plays SACD, DVD-Audio, FLAC, etc for audio as well as MKV files for video as well as being able to stream over Wifi. As long as it's still functional with the original remote it's worth keeping. It lacks the internals to make it anything other than an average analog music player. That's what the BDP-95 was designed for. -
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In the early days (and through their final days of disc players) Oppo were all the rave for their video quality. Later on, they had some pretty good audio output, but their real strength was always video, especially with their ability to stream local and/or network video files better than most competitors.
I'm not surprised that a dedicated Jolida CD player can best it.For rig details, see my profile. Nothing here anymore... -
This would be used as a transport. I doubt it would get a whole lot of use. Looks like it came out in 2011-2012.
For $200, I bought the aforementioned MIT cables (which all I was interested in) and this was part of the deal. The ad read the opposite putting the Oppo out front and an "oh by the way" I am including the MIT S2's and MIT AC1.
I just stumbled onto this listing when searching for MIT.
H9"Appreciation of audio is a completely subjective human experience. Measurements can provide a measure of insight, but are no substitute for human judgment. Why are we looking to reduce a subjective experience to objective criteria anyway? The subtleties of music and audio reproduction are for those who appreciate it. Differentiation by numbers is for those who do not".--Nelson Pass Pass Labs XA25 | EE Avant Pre | EE Mini Max Supreme DAC | MIT Shotgun S1 | Pangea AC14SE MKII | Legend L600 | BlueSound Node 3 - Tubes add soul!
