Interesting comparison between the OPPO 205 and PS Audio.
I was lucky to get one of the 205's from the last production run. Sounded excellent. Sent it to Ric Shultz for mods and it sounded even better, more open, spacious, lower noise floor.
Last month I splurged on an open box Marantz SA-10. Have to say, on my system, it betters the OPPO across the board. Smoother, richer, more natural sounding. Deeper soundstage. Deeper, more solid bass. I'm using both with their analog outputs.
So, I'm happy with the Marantz, but will be keeping the OPPO for playing all the media the Marantz can't play, including video. So, you can get better sound than the OPPO 205 for (CD and SACD), but hard to beat the versatility of it.
I was lucky to get one of the 205's from the last production run. Sounded excellent. Sent it to Ric Shultz for mods and it sounded even better, more open, spacious, lower noise floor.
Last month I splurged on an open box Marantz SA-10. Have to say, on my system, it betters the OPPO across the board. Smoother, richer, more natural sounding. Deeper soundstage. Deeper, more solid bass. I'm using both with their analog outputs.
So, I'm happy with the Marantz, but will be keeping the OPPO for playing all the media the Marantz can't play, including video. So, you can get better sound than the OPPO 205 for (CD and SACD), but hard to beat the versatility of it.