I didn't read every post here, but it seems the OP was saying that the magazine is shilling for Oppo to sell more units before a new model comes out? If that's what he's saying, it makes no sense because Oppo has no 105s left to sell. My old Pioneer finally died and I really wanted a 105, but they were impossible to get new.
Absolute Sound - do we really need another review like this?
I own the OPPPO 105 player purchased 3 years ago and still very satisfied with it.
There are TONS and TONS of glowing reviews of this unit and apparently oppo is working on a replacement model.
In this current February 2017 issue of Absolute Sound, there is yet another review (a brief one) on this unit.
Kind of long in the tooth and totally futile. Sounds like the following Scenario:
oppo: hi stereophile, look, we are still a few months away from putting out the 105 replacement, could you run something just so that we can keep the flame alive before the new model come out?
Sorry but that went trough my head reading this review of the still-stellar and reviewed to death Oppo 105.
Cheers all !