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In Reply to: RE: Esoteric IS build quality? posted by stehno on November 29, 2014 at 17:16:12
I have heard Oppo more than once as a friend has one. Not sure of the number. I am very happy with my Esoteric and have no plans to replace it. Glad your happy with your Oppo. Your Happy, I'm Happy. Happy Holidays
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Sorry, I wasn't trying to rag on your Esoteric. I really like much about Esoteric products and the company itself. Moreover, components can generate different levels of performance in different system configs and I do some pretty unconventional things in my system that I'm sure had extra influence on the OPPO.
My previous post was more out of bewilderment. I mean Esoteric wreaks of build quality and they make arguably the best transport in the biz. In another post further down in this same thread I mentioned what I look for in build quality and I was thinking of the Esoteric when I wrote that. However, my point being that it just goes to show that build quality alone does not guarantee top notch performance.
At the time I was researching, even the reviews of the OPPO were probably just better than mediocre and as usual I had to read between the lines of the reviews.
No offense taken. Mean that sincerely. I get that the price of the Esoterics sure make them targets. I bought used and then held my breath as I had never heard one until it arrived. I had a Sony 777 and enjoyed it and only sold as I kept having to send it in to get fixed every couple of years. Read the "sterile" comments and being a tube lover was worried about a thin sounding digital player that was built well. Well I consider the Esoteric to be anything but thin. It is joy to own to use and I enjoy the hell out of it.
I get that smaller increases in sound quality costs coin. The biggest difference in digital I ever heard was going from a Nakamichi cd2 to a Sony 333. The Nak sounded like a cracker jack plastic whistle compared to the Sony (and I am a long time confirmed Nak lover). The 777 was a better player than the 333 and the Esoteric bests them all in my house.
I could still live with the 333 easily if I had to as I spin vinyl most of the time anyways BUT I am very HAPPY that I own the Esoteric.
Yeah, I know what you mean aboug the Sony's. Years ago I owned the Sony SCD-1 which performance-wise was a joke.
Replaced the SCD-1 with a custom APL unit which was significantly more musical. Then came the Esoteric UX-3SE which was even far more musical than the custom APL CDP.
I don't get it with Sony's SCD-1. Sony was pushing SACD big time and their flagship model SCD-1 weighing 62 lbs. barely sounded any better than their DVP-9000es retailing for $1200. And I mean barely.
Boy, I was glad to get rid of that one.
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