Oppo 205 4K UHD Player

[David A]

The new Oppo looks really interesting and a very solid piece of kit. If it's good with bluray (as I'm sure it is) and can play CD's and SACD's well and quietly without the audible whirr of the mechanism it could mean I could reduce two boxes to one!

My current Denon player is quite good with video but makes a horrible racket when playing a bluray and it's no where near as good as my Esoteric SACD player with audio discs as you might expect. So I would be very interested to hear how people think the Oppo stacks up via digital out and with mechanical noise.

Oppo have obviously put a lot of effort into the analogue outputs with this model and my concern is I would never use them. Is the 203 version a better bet if you are just going to output via HDMI (to AV receiver - 7:1) and digital coax (to Devialet - Stereo)?

My first post here and it isn't about Devialet  :-(

I have an Oppo 105 and an Oppo 203. The distinction between the 103 and 105 was analogue output, video and digital output were identical for both models. That seems to be pretty much the case with the 203 and the 205 apart from the fact that the 205 has some change which reduces jitter on digital audio output over HDMI but apparently the difference in extremely small and there seems to be some doubt that it would be audible in practice. The only other difference is that the 205 supports a wider range of inputs if you want to use it as a DAC but with a Devialet you aren't going to be wanting to use it as a DAC.

So, if you're only going to use the HDMI and digital coax there's going to be no difference between the 203 and the 205 apart from that HDMI jitter reduction feature which you probably wouldn't notice in real life situations. If you aren't going to use analogue output the general advice has always been to get the *03 model rather than the *05 model because for video and digital audio outputs are identical though I guess that's now "essentially identical" with the 205's new jitter reduction feature.