Oppo Ceasing production

This was an E-mail response to me from Oppo just a couple weeks ago. It made no mention of completely going out of business. Strange and sad.

Bill,

Unfortunately we have stopped the manufacturing of the Sonica DAC and the HA-2SE as we were finding that the cost of manufacturing such precision products and the sales volume were just not in a good enough equilibrium to continue their manufacturing.

So there are no current plans on manufacturing additional Soncia DAC and HA-2SE products.

Best Regards,

Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc.
162 Constitution Dr. Menlo Park, CA 94025Service@oppodigital.com
Tel: 650-961-1118
Fax: 650-961-1119Enter your text ...

Very strange, but not unexpected given the elimination of features in the latest 200 series of players including direct access apps. Purchased my BDP105 for 1) performance to $ ratio, 2) multi-format disk play, 3) streaming and 4) two video outputs (I have a small 7” monitor at my listening position). It seems the parent company, BBK Electronics, is focusing on smart phones, MP3 & 4 players and other consumer and industrial electronics. For whatever reason, BBK didn’t sell the brand and continue as a third party manufacturer.

allenone973, is that NIB bdp-205 still available? If so, I’m very interested. Please PM me to let me know. Thank you in advance....

I was considering upgrading from my 105 to the 205 because I believe they had improved the shared DAC situation in the 105.  Too late as their stock is gone.  My 105 is amazing and solved many connectivity issues I would had in my system.   
As far as the media disappearing, I don’t see that as a consideration as I have a fairly large collection of CD’s some of which are SACD’s. 

I was all hyped up when the 203/205 were first announced.  Then I found out that they dropped the Apps.  I was using my 103 to stream some hi-res of the internet.  After a few months, I finally decided to upgrade.  So, sold my 103 here and pickup up a 203 and a Roku.  The Roku doesn't support hi-res audio so now I do that listening on my computer.  After a few months I moved the 203 into the secondary system and picked up a 205.

I figured these are the last "spinners" I'm going to buy.  By the time they need to be replaced, hopefully 4k streaming w/hi-res audio has reached the quality of today's UHD Blu-rays.  Best Buy and Target announced that they will no longer carry CD's.  Walmart's not far behind and the selection on Amazon is also shrinking. Oh well, the world moves on.  

Glad to hear that there might be another production run.  I'm trying to justify the purchase of a pair of PM-3 headphones, but I think that they would be too big for the gym and I don't listen with headphones at home.