Eric5676

LOL! I'll be posting about other brands soon enough.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/geoffreymorrison/2014/05/11/oppo-ha-1-preview If the typical Oppo penchant for high quality bang for the buck holds, this could be a contender.

I know. They look great and I keep running into all this super positive feedback. ^^ This is a recipe that leads to tempting me to do something rash.

Thread necro. How about $1500 stock? I respect Drew's opinions and views a lot. In this video he put these at number 1 overall on his personal prefernce list ahead of both the Audeze LCD-3 at number 2 and Sennheiser 800s at number 3 respectively. Naturally he takes the time to explain how and why he came to those conclusions. It's a 16 minute video if you want to listen. I wasn't terribly familiar with Fostex until very recently and then this video kind of took me by surprise. See what you all think.

PS3 would be my call. It's really going to come down to the games. How many/which games will your son want to play/is he interested in? The Little Big Planet games are gems and you can get all kinds of kid friendly games over PSN (and XBLA, too, for that matter.)

http://www.mostimpressive.nl/AKF/ Aliens mod. Wow!

It's all over the place. The 105 is a pre amp, headphone amp, DAC, video processor, and oh yeah, it plays discs, too. Yes, it has volume control. http://www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-bdp-105/ http://wiki.oppodigital.com/ Down for the moment for whatever reason. Should be back online soon I would hope.

Love my 103. Anyone going to take a plunge on a 105? I'm going to be interested to see what people think of its headphone amp and pre-amp capabilities among other things.

Agreed. It's a fantastic machine.

You'll be able to flip and sell your 95 for a surprisingly good value if that's what you want to do.

I can guarantee it thanks to the high end analog soundstage and outputs including balanced options. If you need high quality analog audio output, 105 all the way. In addition to a DAC, a headphone amp, an all out pre-amp...and oh yeah, it'll play discs, too.

I just prefer having a standalone for a number of reasons even if there were no extras. This Oppo 103 is certainly a superior piece of kit to the PS3 across the boards anyways.

I'm very impressed so far. Fast, clean, super quiet and smooth operation...pretty much everything you've seen hyped here I can sign off on. Feel free to ask any questions since I'm not sure what people are looking for. HDMI inputs work as advertised so nice video processing boosts there. No auto switching there, though, which isn't any big whoop. Fairly hefty build quality at this price point, too. Even the tray drawer mechanism is noticeably improved on vs the 83 that I had. I'm not worried about this player developing a ravenous appetite for discs like my 83 did. HDCD decoding is sweet. Playback is faster than the 83 was. Everything's faster. Menu interface is pretty slick. $500 for this thing is a steal IMHO. I know that's not a small price tag but it's a heck of a value for what it is. If anyone's got any questions fire away and I'll do the best I can. If this unit is anything to by, I can see where the 105 at $1200 is going to be a great value at its price point as well for what's essentially everything I've stated here plus high quality DAC, headphone amp, and full fledged preamp capabilities.

Sell it. Amazing aftermarket value. Amazon, Ebay, here...wherever.

I'll have the 103 in two days. I didn't think they were going to ship these until some time next month. Wow!