Yes, a modified Oppo is a Must Buy for me - everything SACD must be much better than my current player, and digital into Meridian is of course great.

However, I think you may need to "burn them in" an hour before you make the mods. As you probably may have read some EAP-ers have had vibration issues that Oppo quickly has solved by replacing the player, but that is of course not a good solution with modded players sent abroad. They MAY have taken production QA to a new level before the public release, but since these issues all have shown the first hour - why take the chance?

The player will probably be released first without DVD-Audio playback, it seems. All other things are now close to completion while DVD-A seems to have some more work to do, mostly because of no real standard for the disc authoring. I don't think Oppo will want to wait until that is resolved, but it's fine with me if they just promise it Will be implemented in a future FW upgrade - Oppo has always been very good with taking care of their customers and can be trusted without problem on this.

HD621, G98DH, G68ADV, Bc Acoustiqe ACT A3, 5200C DSP33, NuForce Reference 9 monoblocks, 2x SB3's, Velodyne DD-15 & DD-12 Subwoofers and a Meridian sub.