Looks Like The Oppo BDP-93 Is Ready

[ÈlTwo]

Mine shipped, but they must be driving it in a VW micro bus across country; due to be delivered on November 30th.

It's only 4,180 miles, what's the problem?

[dmraupp]

I will be receiving mine on Saturday,great day for a new toy

[copperband]

Mine will be here on Saturday too, but I may not be home to get it

[dmraupp]

All good,received my new Oppo BDP-93 this morning.I did get it unpacked and connected.I do love the look of this component.I did not get to look or listen yet.I do have to get,the Michigan Vs Ohio game is on. ;D One of these will end up being appropriate ;D

[Erwin.BE]

Nov 19, 2010 16:19:19 GMT -5 regulator said:

Nov 19, 2010 15:45:20 GMT -5 jimbailey said:

Where'd you hear of the latter?

As far as I know, there have been no specs released on the 95. It's all speculation right now.

I found this info on the BDP-95
link:
www.musicdirect.com/product/89632

Dual HDMI
Streaming and 3D capabilities
Improved upscaling (Marvell QDEO chip)
Newest ESS DAC
Balanced (XLR) dedicated stereo outputs
Toroidal power supply

Mmm, XLR outputs... I need it!

[LCSeminole]

Oppo has made available to the pre-release owners a new firmware. This goes really fast if your connected via ethernet.

[copperband]

Really? I emailed Oppo yesterday asking for when will the firmware be ready and they said not yet....let me try tonight.

[LCSeminole]

Dec 17, 2010 21:23:05 GMT -5 copperband said:

Really? I emailed Oppo yesterday asking for when will the firmware be ready and they said not yet....let me try tonight.

Received an e-mail today informing of the new firmware.

Here's a link to the improvements over the last firmware.

www.oppodigital.com/blu-ray-bdp-93/bdp9x-firmware-33-1216.aspx

[ÈlTwo]

It now plays multichannel Flac (5.1) via a flash drive, and FLAC via DLNA is fixed and works for multichannel.

Wow, I had ripped my DVD-As to 96/24 waiting for this, and the UMC showed them as 96 3/2+LFE

[flamingeye]

WOW my 83 doesn`t do that I may have to sell it and get that 93 I have a tone of 5.1 flac

[copperband]

May I ask what exactly is flac files? Is it a high quality format re music and songs?

By the way how good is the sound quality from ipod? I found music and songs from ipod sounds louder at the same volume level. I ripped a cd to my ipod and I compared it and found out that. Is it normal for ipod to sound louder?

[ÈlTwo]

I have a bunch of DVD-Audio discs, many of which are 96/24 5.1. These are Meredian Lossless files, which is a proprietary compression algorighm.

FLAC is the Free Lossless Audio Codec. I ripped my DVD-A discs to 5.1 Flac so I can have access to them without having to change discs, just have them in my library. Unfortunately I can't rip
SACDs this way.

The sound quality from a iPod will depend upon the quality of the music you are playing, and possibly the compression.

When you say "music and songs from ipod sounds louder at the same volume level" what are you comparing it to? Sounds louder than music being played on . . . ?

[copperband]

I mean to play a cd on my blu-ray player at say -30db volume level, I ripped the same cd to my ipod, connect my ipod to my receiver and play it at same volume level, at -30db, ipod is much louder....

[ÈlTwo]

Does the volume on your iPod affect the volume on your receiver?

[xyz1]

I had problems updating the firmware using the wireless connection, so I switched to an Ethernet connection and the update came on and installed immediately. I connected my hard drive with my flac files to the Oppo 93 and they play and sound great!

[ÈlTwo]

The release notes state specifically that you can't update the firmware via wireless. My understanding is that feature is first turned on with the new update.

[Trey]

^^ Correct. Only works after the update, so all future firmware will be able to update via wireless from now on.