SInce I posted about a $9000 Paradigm sub

[3db]

I have to post now about a $9000 dollar universal player by Ayre that uses some of Oppo's parts. This too was in this month's Home Theater Mag.

The following are select quotes from the June 2011 Home Theater magazine Review (review located on pages 44-46)

“The DX-5 is based on the disc drive mechanism and video decoding board from the OPPO BDP-83. Everything else is designed and/or implemented by Ayre, including the power supplies, DACs, digital filters, and analog audio output sections.”

“No other Blu-ray-based player I’ve heard, including Denon’s DVD-A1UDCI(HT, October 2009), approaches this level of sonic quality.”

“The DX-5 fully revealed the highest frequencies in these patterns, and the vertical lines looked crisper than they did with the OPPO BDP-95 I used for comparison.”

“I know my comments on the HDMI video output looking better than other players will be met with skepticism. I get it. That’s how I felt before I saw the DX-5.”

and you guys thought the Paradigm sub was a rip-off??

 

[its phillip]

I thought it was 10k. Either way, huge ripoff. Reading the reviews in those magazines piss me off most of the time

 

[3db]

I thought it was 10k. Either way, huge ripoff. Reading the reviews in those magazines piss me off most of the time

Yep...Its the cable reviews that really get to me

 

[PENG]

Yep...Its the cable reviews that really get to me

Especially those for the power cords. That's when I couldn't help but thought that those guys had no credibility. Back to the UP, as least they could demo the difference with test patterns though in practice perhaps even Eagles cannot detect and therefore enjoy the crispier images.