Digital output or Analog output from Blu Ray playe

If you intend only to use the HDMI, component and/or optical & coaxial audio outputs, and NOT it’s analog outputs ....

Jim, component video is analog, and therefore those outputs utilize dac's in the player (for video, not audio -- as you no doubt realize audio is not carried on those signals).

Best regards,
-- Al

Cmalak

Thanks much... sort of figured it that way, just checking. $500 is $500, or used to be a little while ago!

half a dime can go a long ways towards another better stand alone DAC too.

Almarg

Ooops. Got carried away there for a mo'. I was pointing towards the audio section as you surmised.

I like the idea of the DACs being used by Oppo in the '95. They're boasting some strong numbers. 32 bit... 135db dynamic range.. and ultra quiet. Should support a quite vivid audio image, placing the user exceptionally close to the music. Though the refinement and aaplomb would be a sum of the balance of the downstream parts as well... not simply the DACs in use. But it does smack of an ability to possess remarkable transparency.... depending.

The other thing that made me curious is how differing transports.... connected to differing DACs via a DIGITAL interface, will definitely yield a different sound. The actual interface being used therein too affects the resultant sound about as much as the type of connection in play.

So there's that aspect of digital to digital feeding as well.

I have an Oppo BDP 83SE now and waiting for a trade-up for the 95 model. I use the analogue in the Oppo for movies and music. Sounds really good but kind of wondering how much improvement one HDMI specifically for audio and one for video would sound opposed to one HDMI for both.

Regards Bacardi

Bacardi

I'm not so sure that would improve anything.... other than tie up two cables instead of one.

I've done something along those lines by using the HDMI for video only, and the coax for sound. the diff was so marginal as to not be a concern... and it tied up two cables. The coax being a very expensive one.

the notion I got on the 93 & 95's twin HDMI outs is for use in separate zones, or as separate incidents, or just differing displays.

Of course, who knows... maybe twin HDMI cables can help. I'd simply bet aginst it... all things being equal.

I was wondering the same thing. I just bought a used Classe SSP-800 to replace my 300. I bought an Oppo 95 to replace my 83SE. I will write back to inform when I get it to see if the picture is better going direct to my Pioneer vs the Classe giving me the picture. By the way my Blu Ray movies sound much better through the Classe 800 than using the RCA outputs of the 83SE. I get much more dynamic sound and deeper bass, more light weight through the analog outputs.