howdy,
I've been mulling over for a while buying an oppo bd93 v buying a DAC for my existing components.
Currently, i have a Denon DVD-1920 which was my universal player until blu-ray came along. My blu-ray is just a cheap Sony BDP BX57.
Here is my problem, i need to be able to play all formats. I love the sound of the Denon and don't want to get rid of it, but it doesn't do blu-ray (neil young's archives, pink floyds immersion editions both have bluray audio). The Sony is lacking in the audio dept, and doesn't do DVD-A. I am also short of analog inputs on my amp (i have an integrated amp and do not have surround sound at all just plain old stereo). So currently the blu-ray goes into the digital input of my tascam cd burner right now, i am basically using that as a DAC (it's not that good), and i listen to it via the analog outs on that instead of it's own.
Looking around i can see the oppo bd-93 which has great video performance, but people seem to think it lacks a little in the audio dept, especially when compared to the oppo 95 which i can't afford.
The cambridge audio dacmagic gets great reviews.
so my quandary is whether to buy a one size fits all player, or keep what i've got and plug them into a DAC. I do not do multichannel audio, just stereo, and the vast majority of my music is cd rather than dvd-a or sacd.
I understand that the sacd/dvd-a digital audio on the denon and sony would probably be down-sampled on it's way out, so i'm wondering if a dac would do anything at all for them (then again i've got 20 sacd's and 2000 cd's)
would i be better off getting the oppo or buying a dac?
anybody got any thoughts on which way to go??
I've been mulling over for a while buying an oppo bd93 v buying a DAC for my existing components.
Currently, i have a Denon DVD-1920 which was my universal player until blu-ray came along. My blu-ray is just a cheap Sony BDP BX57.
Here is my problem, i need to be able to play all formats. I love the sound of the Denon and don't want to get rid of it, but it doesn't do blu-ray (neil young's archives, pink floyds immersion editions both have bluray audio). The Sony is lacking in the audio dept, and doesn't do DVD-A. I am also short of analog inputs on my amp (i have an integrated amp and do not have surround sound at all just plain old stereo). So currently the blu-ray goes into the digital input of my tascam cd burner right now, i am basically using that as a DAC (it's not that good), and i listen to it via the analog outs on that instead of it's own.
Looking around i can see the oppo bd-93 which has great video performance, but people seem to think it lacks a little in the audio dept, especially when compared to the oppo 95 which i can't afford.
The cambridge audio dacmagic gets great reviews.
so my quandary is whether to buy a one size fits all player, or keep what i've got and plug them into a DAC. I do not do multichannel audio, just stereo, and the vast majority of my music is cd rather than dvd-a or sacd.
I understand that the sacd/dvd-a digital audio on the denon and sony would probably be down-sampled on it's way out, so i'm wondering if a dac would do anything at all for them (then again i've got 20 sacd's and 2000 cd's)
would i be better off getting the oppo or buying a dac?
anybody got any thoughts on which way to go??
