just an fyi the musiland dac/amp is windows only. not sure if you need a mac compatible dac/amp, but it doesnt cohere to my setup.

i am merica so only wyndos

i read some where that its on par with the udac which is what i have but for some reason, the problem is that reviewers have said the udac is shit , so what is happen i am loste

shit= dont buy
what else do u want nub

but they say the dragon dat very very good

so i am confuse

be less confused and dont buy
ty m9

Just ordered this: http://us.marantz.com/us/products/pages/ProductDetails.aspx?CatId=bluraydvd&ProductId=UD5007

I feel bad for you, you just got financially raped for nothing.

Did I? Mind going on details why you think so?

Well yes and no... Yes its an expensive blu-ray player

but no not all blu-ray players are made equal (contrary to popular belief) Right off the bat you need to look at support; if you have a collection of SACDs, HD-CDs, DVD-A, AVCHD etc you'll need player that can play all of them (not all cheap players do this)

then there's the actual hardware performance, disc players will actually affect the colour of your display, so even if you have a fully calibrated IPS display or plasma TV close to the D65 standard a poor blu-ray player will mess up the colours again... A good one will have 0 errors.

And that's where my recommendation comes in; the $499 Oppo 103 universal blu-ray player. The blueprint of all other high-end blu-ray players. the $4000 Theta Digital compli-blu is just a re-skinned Oppo. the $1200 Cambridge 751-BD is re-skinned Oppo.

The $135,000 Goldmund reference (not a typo) blu-ray player is again; re-skinned Oppo. Its shares all the components that Oppo uses in its $499 103 and $1199 105.

So if you're willing to spend ~ $500-600 on a blu-ray I think its impossible to NOT go for an Oppo 103

This post was edited by MGS4BestGameEverMade on Oct 4 2014 12:39pm

You can read about the test results of the flawless Opoo here:


OPPO 103

100% on their score test - only Blu-ray player to get this score:




Absolutely zero colour errors so movies will actually stay true to your displays calibrated colour correction:



full review:


http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/blu-ray-players/blu-ray-players-reviews/oppo-bdp-103-blu-ray-player/page-4-on-the-bench.html


Toshiba $300 blu-ray player:



58.5% on the benchmark. failed almost half of their tests


Other important factors is the chip that up scales DVDs, the Oppo chip does a great job of making DVDs look like Blu-rays... Cheaper blu-rays not so much.


Also worthy to note: more expensive BD players =/= better BD players.

Mcintish's (highly respectable audio company providing some of the best amps in the industry) $8000 blu-ray player performs worse than a $299 PS3 from 2006 (not kidding)




@ Vittujenkevat: As you can see for $500 its pretty hard to go wrong with an Oppo... I'd seriously recommend you try one before going with the Marantz, even though the Marantz might be a great player too, I doubt anything under $1000 competes with 103.

This post was edited by MGS4BestGameEverMade on Oct 4 2014 12:38pm