I have an intent to buy an Oppo-205 - anybody have any thoughts?

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On 14/11/2017 at 2:01 PM, GUTB said:

voicing,

If we are going for ultimate fidelity, then where does voicing come in... That implies creating a specific sound which is not true fidelity...

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I like the Oppo, would be the perfect solution for the living room, all in one solution. For my music room though I am going to audition the Benchmark DAC3.

Looking at the insides of the different devices I don't see £5,000 grands worth of difference between the BOMs, and even with the best layout you will only achieve 21 bit resolution at conversion, why bother with 32 bit, its usually for floating point DSP stuff.

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16 hours ago, Ralf11 said:

What are the negative comments in between the lines in that review?

Its not a true audiophile device according to some, it is to cheap...

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It's to cheep to be a real audiophile product...

Discounting the fancy cases, there is not a lot of difference in BOM's between the very expensive DACs and the DACs similar to the Oppo, though the Oppo is likely to use real components rather than audiophile components and be engineered NOT voiced.