OPPO REGION FREE BLU RAY PLAYER MOD
On one hand we saw tones of information like this in the net – people claiming they found some fabulous product costing small money and most of such claims were just a PR or ad But on the other hand if guys like Dan Wright gave their name for such a mod – that looked promising. Sure – modes were two/three times more expensive than player itself but still price/value ratio seemed to be extremely good. It didn't take long for many threads to appear mostly on American forums claiming the sound quality offered by Oppo modified by one of the companies offering such service (like Modwright, ASi Teknologies, RAM, or NuForce) could be compared to players costing couple of grands. That was interesting enough for many because of all additional benefits (like DVD and BR playback ability) – why pay 500$ for CD player if you could have a player with BR/DVD/CD/SACD?DVD-A playback capability at the same price? What we knew from beta-testers was that sound quality from CDs, SACDs and DVD-A was already quite good – comparable to specialized players at same price level.
OPPO REGION FREE BLU RAY PLAYER MODS
Interestingly some companies dealing with audio modifications had their mods for Oppo ready the moment first customer could buy it. They knew already that picture quality was very good, sound quality was very nice and they could be sure that the device had been tested extensively by real users. As soon as BDP-83 was released to the market there was a crowd of people craving to buy it. The „funny” part is that they really collected feedback from those tests and they worked out some solutions and implemented them! Of course they also benefited from couple of hundreds of beta-testers leeching lots of positive feedback about the product to the public. How? Before releasing this player to the public they ran two rounds of beta tests. Probably none of them is ever going to make same mistake again.īut … Oppo's approach was different.
To make a long story short – all sorts of DVD players proudly presented labels saying that they were capable of playing some audiophile's formats, none of them did it well but some naive Customers bought them anyway. I am not going to describe this sound as some kids might read it …. I myself own a Samsung DVD player that plays also SACD via analog outputs of course, hence using its own internal DAC. Attractive price of 499$ and ability to play not only BR and DVD discs but also CD, SACD and DVD-A! Well we saw lots of DVD players that were advertised also as SACD players (sometimes also DVD-A) and they actually played such discs but … nobody wanted to listen to them as the sound was … crappy (forgive my language). One day people all over the world read about great Blu-ray player Oppo BDP-83. But nevertheless Oppo is a BRAND in USA mostly. As far as I can tell these products are valued because of their solid design and good performance, all offered at a reasonable price. Sure they make some good DVD players and you can find some of these here and there.
Oppo is an American company well known on local market and not so well here in Europe. I took a 500$ BR player and had it modified by well known Dan Wright from Modwright Instruments and was hoping to get a very satisfactory result as reported by many happy users in US. This time I have for you a review that I would hardly call a regular one.
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