And after throwing every possible disc, content, and format at the OPPO BDP-83 Blu-ray player we can state that they still offer great sound at a budget price, with a strong feature set in a well built product.

They sell direct, without the middleman overhead, and the units are astonishingly good, especially for the price point.”ĭoes this evaluation still hold up today? We spent several months putting OPPO’s new Blu-ray player to the test.

While it’s a bit of an impossible dream, when an affordable product emerges that deserves serious consideration, then an underground whispering campaign begins.” We followed by writing, “Oppo is unique in that as it only offers a few products, and those products are thought out very carefully. Naturally, the secret desire of most audiophiles is that bargain system that sounds as good as those outrageously priced ones. If you’ve ever walked into the showroom of a high-end audio store, you would be hard pressed to find systems priced less than ten grand at the low-end. At that time, we wrote that: “Audiophiles are a tough bunch to please. A couple of years ago we reviewed a universal CD/DVD player, the OPPO 980H.

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