After another week or so of listening, I've found a number of CDs for which the Meridian player sounds much better then the Oppo... its more 3 dimensional and less edgy on these discs... the Eagles 'Hotel California' is a prime example. Now I'm wondering if I should have had the entire digital mod (at least the new power supply and clock) done, assuming that that is the root cause of this performance discrepancy. I'm really hoping that I can get down to just 1 digital transport, but as it stands, I don't think I can.

Anyone in the sunny (not so much today) San Jose, CA area, that has a fully modded Oppo DVD player who would be willing to do an A/B test against my partially modded Oppo BDP-83? I'll supply drinks and snacks. If you're interested, send me a PM/email and we can work out the details. Thanks....