I picked up the Farouja for a steal. At the time I owned 1 $1000.00 Sony. The picture quality is slightly better. Especially the blues and greens but nothing significant. Where this player really excelled was the sound quality. It is unbeleivable. I think the sound was designed by EAD. I even used it as a tempoary cd transport and it really shinned. It is extremely dissapointing that it isnt DTS but the sound quality is so good I would be suprised if another player in DTS would sound as good as this one in Dolby Digital.
