Mark wrote in his initial posting: "and would they have the ease/simplicity of the Apple TV with music covers, playlists etc?"

The OPPO is for me the perfect Bluray/DVD/SACD, and...and-player.

It handles audio extremely well.

But.... I would not live with the fact that I would have to turn on the big screen everytime I want to listen to music, scrolling through folders and more... (ever if the OPPO is PUC-controlled).

IPads and tablets are here to stay and they/the apps are perfect tools to control even large music-collections - with "ease and simplicity".

Nowadays we indeed have a lot of possibilities to hear music in excellent quality, managing our files easily - sitting in our "prefered armchair, couch or whatever" with the controlpoint right beside us.

Testing, listening to, reading 'bout experiences with different systems/solutions comes before choosing. A lot of the 3.part-solutions can be integreted very well with a B&O-setup.

Happy experimenting 💡

Greetings Millemissen

Hi again,

no I haven't got the OPPO yet. But I know it rather well from friends -  experimenting, testing...  😐

When I get mine (the 103)  soon, I will not use it for music-playing - other than playing CD's and SACD's (!).

It is too complicated. - as descibed above.

If  it could acts as a renderer, I would use a good control-app (probably the 'PlugPlayer') -  but unfortunatly it can't.

That feature would make it 100% perfect - that is: if you can live without gaplessplay 🙁

But I am eager to hear, what others think about it for  playing music-files.

Greetings Millemissen 

you can by a linn sneaky for £1000,it will beat cd players costing double that.

ollie75 wrote:

Thanks again guys

 

@ Doubleu.....yes I don't mind navigating on the TV however it's not priority. I would prefer sound over vision

 

 

@ butch..... The linn I'm sure is fantastic and if money was no object it would be the first pick. In Australia they retail for around $4500. That's getting up there for a player though. I'd have to hide the receipt from the wife ;)

 

 

The more I read about the Oppo, it really does appear to be the all rounder. Can anyone advise how the steaming or audio playback quality is?

 

 

Tks again

Audio playback as a transport has been considered as state of the art for many. For the older models the recorded output jitter was really quite low around 100psec. And I just did a search up for us and it seems like Iphone/Ipad control over the music server function will be coming soon via a software update. 

" it seems like Iphone/Ipad control over the music server function will be coming soon via a software update."

Heard about this too - let's see if it is more than just a rumour?

It will have to be MUCH better than the existing control-app to be useable.

If it comes, it means that we can use the OPPO as a renderer - for music too 👍

Greetings Millemissen

butch1 wrote:

you can by a linn sneaky for £1000,it will beat cd players costing double that.

Okay it seems like you are a Linn expert. What you think of the Kiko? I nearly bought that. Have you gotten the chance of auditioning it?