OPPO BDP-95 Review (Blu-ray/DVD/SACD/CD Player)

[NTTY]

How to explain 9dB less on the left FL output compared to the left RCA output? ... This leaves me perplexed.

It’s not the same ESS in use for these outputs
One is dedicated to main stereo (the 8 channels are combined by 4 to output stereo signal). The FL and FR outputs use two channels of the other ESS 9018S DAC.

 

[olieb]

It’s not the same ESS in use for these outputs
One is dedicated to main stereo (the 8 channels are combined by 4 to output stereo signal). The FL and FR outputs use two channels of the other ESS 9018S DAC.

A bit surprising that four channels of the stereo dac are worse than a single channel of the other. Or that the output stage of surround is better than the stereo output stage.
Did you consider about checking the ”ESS-hump” problem? Did they ace that, too?

 

[DanTheMan]

I so regret never buying an Oppo. When I was configuring my Home Theater I tried to get an Oppo from the local HiFi shop (which is still alive thankfully) and they told me I should just buy one directly from Oppo because I would get it much faster. I didn't because Video Only had a sale on Sony. The same salesman told me to buy Blades and never worry about upgrading again. He was right on everything, but my Sony is still working perfectly and is a fine player.

 

[NTTY]

A bit surprising that four channels of the stereo dac are worse than a single channel of the other. Or that the output stage of surround is better than the stereo output stage.
Did you consider about checking the ”ESS-hump” problem? Did they ace that, too?

It could be a variety of reasons, from the chip itself not having the same performance, different output stage and one component generating a tiny little more distorsion, etc…
And note that this is at 0dBFS, if I remember, there’s no difference at -6dBFS.
ESS hump, not tested. I can’t run a sweep because I can’t sync the analyzer to the player because the player acts as the generator via the CD or the USB key. I could try at different levels with a dual tone or MT though.

 

[w1000i]

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[Salt]

Uninteresting on an audio forum, and in that mentioned market there are players that do best as well ...

 

[Chester]

Uninteresting on an audio forum, and in that mentioned market there are players that do best as well ...

No need to be rude. It’s a thread about an Oppo player, what Oppo are doing now is of interest to some.

 

[Robin L]

No need to be rude. It’s a thread about an Oppo player, what Oppo are doing now is of interest to some.

And smartphones continue to be a music source via streaming.

 

[JimBean]

I so regret never buying an Oppo. When I was configuring my Home Theater I tried to get an Oppo from the local HiFi shop (which is still alive thankfully) and they told me I should just buy one directly from Oppo because I would get it much faster. I didn't because Video Only had a sale on Sony. The same salesman told me to buy Blades and never worry about upgrading again. He was right on everything, but my Sony is still working perfectly and is a fine player.

It's not too late, they still sell on eBay and USAudiomart for (somewhat) reasonable prices. They are great, and darn near the only player to play SACDs and HDCDs.

 

[pma]

ESS hump, not tested. I can’t run a sweep because I can’t sync the analyzer to the player because the player acts as the generator

IMO it might be tested by a series of single tones with different amplitudes, like -90dBFS, -80dBFS, ………., up to 0dBFS. THD should change monotonically with signal level.

 

[Jole]

Thank you on review. People knew for 95 potential that you have just proved , someone say 105 was one step ahead in audio section. I think in EU both are very expensive 95 is 600-650e and 105 goes to 1000e.

 

[RogerSmith]

So it lives up to it's fame. Why did they go out of business?

 

[phoenixsong]

Pity- Oppo was such a gem, also for other discontinued equipment lines too

 

[aagstn]

So it lives up to it's fame. Why did they go out of business?

They didn't go out of business, they just weren't making the profits necessary to stay in the disc player business. They were a small niche compared to Sony and Panasonic and didn't get on all the store shelves the giants did. They also packed features and quality into every player. Even the entry level stuff was excellent with long abandoned features like HDCD, DVD-A and SACD. I think this kept their margins very tight and eventually sales didn't allow them to continue. To be fair, at this point even Panasonic and Sony are holding on by their fingernails to the Blu-ray player market. Streaming has made disc players nearly obsolete. Panasonic makes probably the best player for HD Blu-ray you can get now, but that line is very old and hasn't been updated since it came out in 2018.

 

[Power Pop 23]

. I think this kept their margins very tight and eventually sales didn't allow them to continue.

. Streaming has made disc players nearly obsolete..

Agreed

My speculation is the cost of supporting streaming services on Oppo disc players was too much for their margins to absorb. Oppo Digital looked at their sales and decided further investment could not be justified.

(sample size of one...) A friend looking for a 4K disc player rejected out-of-hand my recommendation of an Oppo '203' for not offering support for streaming for the price they were asking.

I am a little suprised Panasonic is the only (AFAIK) legacy audio company to offer a relatively robust 4K disc player and an aging one at that. The market for such is smaller than I imagined.

 

[NTTY]

IMO it might be tested by a series of single tones with different amplitudes, like -90dBFS, -80dBFS, ………., up to 0dBFS. THD should change monotonically with signal level.

Oh, if single tones are enough then I already have the data as part of my standard tests. But with CD only, and that would probably be hidden by the lower resolution, in the quantization noise. I have the same with shape dither though, from 0dBFS down to -110dBFS.
I’ll give a try with 24bits, it’s only few files to create anyways.

 

[NTTY]

Streaming has made disc players nearly obsolete. Panasonic makes probably the best player for HD Blu-ray you can get now, but that line is very old and hasn't been updated since it came out in 2018.

I saw that big Panasonic on sale locally, the DP-UB9004. Would it be interesting to know how it performs?
I see it features an AK4493 which should make it very close to this OPPO. No SA-CD compatibility though, but it reads DSD files.

 

[NTTY]

Ok, here you go with IMD SPMPTE at different levels. All sources 24bits/48kHz.
I hesitated between dBFS and dBr scale, but the former is better to see that the noise floor does not visually change.
I zoomed on the second tone of the test (7kHz), since this is were the IMD is calculated (linear scale view from 5kHz to 9kHz to ease viewing).
I report for -2, -6, -10, -12, -16, -20, -25, 30, -35, -40, -50, -60 dBFS RMS.

Conclusion: yes, we find the ESS hump, from -20dBFS to -40dBFS, as known.

 

[Tom C]

Sure, it’s a beaut. But hasn’t been for sale as new for 25 years. So not much use to us now…

 

[bluefuzz]

I found one of these for about $20 a few years ago at a local used-gear emporium. It may be a BDP93, come to think of it, but I can't be bothered looking at the back to find out. I use the digital out anyway so the analogue performance is largely irrelevant. The attractive thing for me with this device is that it can be relatively easily modded to play region-free both Blu-Rays and DVDs. I have a quite a large collection of Blu-Rays sourced from all over the globe and it's nice not to have to think about whether I can actually play them.

Curiously the device I have has a custom firmware apparently only sold through B&O stores in this country although the device itself is not rebadged in any way and there's nothing B&O specific in the software I can see. Somewhat annoyingly this custom ROM doesn't allow upgrading to the latest version of the firmware, but for my use it doesn't really matter.