Irony of ironies.... Both Absolute Sound and Stereophile did such a fantastic job in educating and creating a group of highly informed audiophiles, that they rendered the need for their publications to become no longer needed... in many ways. Because of these magazines, the choice of products today are so good that reviews are often times rendered a mere curiosity rather than a need. Audiophiles now know what they want, and where to find it. IMHO.
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 !