My 2 cents
I think consumers are just beginning to be educated on room acoustics. Cheap equipment can sound better than expensive equipment when properly setup and in a better room for acoustics. BUT put good equipment in a good room with the cheap equipment and no contest. My magazine of late just changed their name. They are now including a bunch of articles on room acoustics. Long overdue. But not as easy as just putting absorbers at first reflection points that absorb a select few frequencies like an equalizing adjustment. It has to be done properly with measurements. The equipment already is at the level of perfection where our hearing gets off you know limited bandwidth. S/N distortion and so on and so on. The last and biggest pain in the u no what is the room. I hope someone will be the first to adopt a new construction policy of putting in a sound room just for music or movies. The answers have been around for a long time. I think the need is there in todays world. Would be cheaper to do in the beginning rather than remodel. I love my Oppo 93 and noticed right off the build quality and performance. It did have a few apps and can stream from Netflix and Vudu. I think they got out now because optical storage media is going away. The internet is changing the way we all consume signals and buying and storing physical discs is expensive and takes up space. I am having trouble keeping up with upgrading because it is happening faster and faster. Hats off to Oppo and thanks for making benchmark quality products.