Digital Drive: Hi Geoff... Rotel and Oppo... by Joe Rasmussen Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

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Posted by Joe Rasmussen (M ) on May 7, 2015 at 00:13:14

In Reply to: RE: changes from stock posted by jusbe on March 26, 2015 at 13:49:04:

Hi Geoff

Just want to set the record straight.

The original importer of Oppo was Ken Francis of Merlin Audio. He called me to tell me that he would be losing the agency to International Dynamics (InterDyn) in Melbourne and he was not surprised. After all, InterDyn is also the importer for Rotel. Shortly afterwards, Tony Wong from InterDyn also called me to let me know that they were taking on the national agency for Oppo, but that Ken would continue as a distributor, so relations were never strained - in fact it was all rather pre-expected because of InterDyn also having Rotel. Tony indeed is very well aware of the work we do on the Oppos and has praised it highly. Indeed Tony once suggested that he might even introduce me to guys from Rotel when they came to Australia.

Tony has since left InterDyn and is with Magenta Audio out of Adelaide. They bring in PS Audio products like the "DirectStream" DAC and also are resurrecting the Halcro brand. Tony is known by just about every HiFi dealer in the country and knows the industry better than anybody along with his old buddy Len Wallis. No better source.

I suspect Oppo themselves don't exactly want it widely known, but I don't consider it a negative and state it as a positive, both Oppo and Rotel stuff out of Rotel have proved to be very reliable products. Not seen a single failure of the latest series of Oppos, 103, 103D, 105 and 105D.

So I hope that helps.

Cheers, Joe

PS: If you get back in Sydney sometime, I would love to meet up - and tell you how VSE is going (went to Schaffhausen in August last year and met up with Hanni and Thomas). I could tell you some interesting things about Allen - 34 years we were friends and collaborators - and I was quite happy for him to be the front man. Did he ever talk about Rowan McCombe? :)

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