Yeah, I was expecting the same thing. That on movies it was going to be ridiculous but on serious 2 channel music that it was going to be mediocre at best. Boy was I wrong. Now is it as good on music as my dedicated dac and Decware combo was? No. But still pretty darn impressive. That brings up a question I have. So I know the 976 is right around the corner and I might get that for different reasons but one of them is the pure analog stage. So do you think the dac's in the Oppo UDP-203 are better than the dac's in the 975? But I know the dac's in the 976 are going to be better than the ones in the 975, how better? Who knows.