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What does oppo stand for?

As these things infiltrate my life, my wife is taking notice.

How many oppos can one own before divorce happens? Or in general, how nice can your stereo be before the wife sends you packin?

Anybody else here obsessed with oppo? Since I bought my first one recently, a 103d, I’ve purchased used a 981 just to play cds on my Fisher 400, and an 83 for my Kenwood L09m system. The 103d is connected to my current reference system which includes my Dynaco Mark IIIs with a Pas2 preamp, all with NOS tubes and nicely refurbished, with the nice cloth xfmr leads etc. Oh, and Klipsch towers.

I’m looking to bring my newly purchased 95 down here in the basement and bring the 103d upstairs for our entertainment center. Bought the 95 here on Audiogon and awaiting its arrival.

The wife doesn’t know about the 83 nor the 95.

This is it though. I will purchase no more audio equipment after this. I’m done upgrading... forever. I’m not a true audiophile like y’all. I’ll never own 4500.00 speakers and such. I’ll never own anything McIntosh and such. My Fisher 400 treats me fine. I’ll throw rocks at overpriced McIntosh equip.

I kid, you know what I mean?

Are there many female audiophiles? Seriously, I’m new at this stuff.

op·po

ˈäpō

/noun

US
  1. short for opposition research."they are doing extensive oppo, looking over her public financial records, getting copies of her divorce papers"

mcgowdog

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mcgowdog OP
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Oh, so it's a last name.  If the wife knew this, she may show more respect. 

Now that I have four of them, only two which she knows about,  I need to be careful. 

Just the other day,  she gave me another theory as to what OPPO stands for.  Evidently,  if you switch the letters around, you get POOP.

Once she discovers the 95, she'll probably tell me that I oppoed all over our marriage. 
mcgowdog OP
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Thanks for relating your OPPO experience.   What kind of dac do you use with yours?  I think my bro uses a geek pulse.
mcgowdog OP
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Since I've last posted in here, I've aquired the 105.  Audio bliss.  Plays my m4a files too.

I got a used (of course) 980.  The oppo 980 will have you throwing rocks at your 981.  Great player for dvds and down.  Great for just plain d cds, but will play flash drives too.
mcgowdog OP
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Ah, the 970 was mentioned in my absence.

I own two of them now, one having intermittent problems playing some cds but neither having any problems playing usb flash drives nor micro sd cards.

The 970 also uses HDMI if needed, plays dvds but not bluray obviously.

I think the 83 is the first to do that?
mcgowdog OP
18 posts
 
Yes thanks, that seemed to help, but still intermittent problems.  Maybe I could replace the laser?  Strangely intermittent problem.
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