Highlights
Quality
I played some reference music and im pleased
It has the best video performance of any standard bluray player on the market and its audio quality is extraordinary
Build quality is solid and the baseline features all work reliably
Price
1299 is not cheap but is worth the price
Packaging/appearance
Im not sure how cambridge audio is able to get such great sound out of the cxu
Competitiveness
Excellent video and audio qualityboth better than its competitor oppo bdp105d
Forget the oppos this is the one to own if you want a player that is extraordinarily good sounding on audio discs and is amazin... Read More
And im not convinced 4k ultra high definition bluray discs have a future
It does both cds and bluray discs more than justice
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If i were to outline a con it would be nice if there was a software roadmap published
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Seems hard to believe with all the capabilities of this player streaming apps such as netflix and amazon are not planned
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
One reason oppo discontinued the 1xx series players was that mediatek the vendor for one of the chips in the 105d ceased production of the chip they were supplying to oppo
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Almost all joni mitchell and grateful dead cds are hdcd encoded
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And many country artists continue to release hdcd encoded cds but they are not always flagged as an hdcd disc
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Well the hdcd encoding process adds an additional 4 bits of information to a cd
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The result imho equals the sound quality of a sacd super audio cd
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
And there is no loss of sound quality if you play back an hdcd disc on a nonhdcd player the disc sounds like any other redbook 1644 cd