For anyone who cares, I have been enjoying my Oppo 83 for several days now, and the picture is beautiful on blu-ray, as one would expect. But the shocker is that regular DVD's look astoundingly good. I was upconverting my DVD's before, but this is a new order of magnitude. My son watched Star Wars 3 tonight, and it was like watching a new movie, with the all new picture.

The sound on the various new blu-ray audio formats is fun as well. The sound is really low in distortion, which allows you to turn the Maggie 1.6's up to ridiculous volume levels (which my wife did not appreciate) (I bought the Outlaw interconnects to pass the multiple channels.). It works okay as a CD player as well, although it seems tilted up a little. It should sound good through unmodified Maggies, since they're a little lacking upstairs.

I.m not as worried about getting a new processor right now. I'm having fun with this new toy. It IS a bit of a pain without HDMI thoroughfare, though. On the 990, I've got SACD and BD through the 7.1 channel, DVD through the DVD channel, and stereo CD's bypassing the 990 and going directly into the Jolida.

So how is that dhc 9.9, Strindl?