All Quiet on the Oppo front?


Many Oppo fans were talking about getting their pre-ordered UDP-205's a month ago, but no new posts as to current status. I haven't heard a word. I kinda thought there would be a July release, but apparently not.

Anybody receive any news from Oppo in the past month? 
bultaco
The July release were already delivered.  There are 2 more shipments coming this month.
2 more this month, how did you find that out? You received your notification the same day as me, are you still waiting too?
@bultaco...………………………………………………

A few weeks ago, I reached out to Oppo and asked how close I was to the top of the list.  They emailed back that they couldn't tell me but all the July orders already went out and that there will be 2 more delivery's in August.  Also everyone who confirmed their pre-order would get their unit.  You and I should get ours sometime this month.
I'm still waiting for my email confirmation so I can place my order for one! I heard the last batch is coming late this August!

@donre...………………………
Myself and butaco are also waiting so we can order

There is a batch coming in within a week or two, then another batch towards the end of the month, so that makes it 2 more chances. I am not thinking too much about the wait. Last year I waited 7 1/2 months for my speakers after I plunked down a 4K deposit. The wait was agonizing and almost drove me insane. Or did it?
I am on the email list but have heard nothing? What email account did the email come from? Wonder if it hit the Trash bin?
@joekapahulu 

Oppo will send an E-mail to confirm the E-mail address is correct within a week or 2. Which is all I have received so far and that was on May 6, I believe. If there is enough to cover all the requester's, the next E-mail will be "what's your credit card # ". Otherwise, you may never hear from them. Stereo5 contacted them directly to get a status on shipments. Frankly, I'm surprised they told him that much. They seem to be pretty tight lipped...

So, I'm in the same bucket as many others, I confirmed my email months ago and haven't heard a peep.  I'm not holding my breath.


With that in mind, I may have the option to score a used 105D for $350 tomorrow.  Using the analog outs (balanced) into a Marantz 8802a>Lexicon RX-7>bi-amped Revel Studio 2 + JL F212V2(2 of them), would I notice a significant jump in sound quality vs my current 103>audioquest Diamond HDMI>Marantz setup?  Would likely be using Audioquest Mackenzie or Yukon XLR for connections btw Oppo and Marantz.

@esthlos13

You will notice a big jump. Everything you have mentioned will add a little, to add up to a lot. Especially the balanced IC's. I say get the most expensive IC's you can afford.

Plus, don't be too surprised if Oppo comes back with an E-mail offer.
We picked up Oppo 205 from the local office on July 2.  Really happy to get it and very happy with it.  I wouldn’t give up too soon.  The earlier you put in your request, the more likely you will get one.  We put in  our email request around 7-8 April.
To any concerned:

As of today, 08/10/2018, Oppo's website states: " We are on track to receive a shipment in late August and mid-September".  "We are no longer taking E-mail requests".
I wonder whether everyone on the current list will get the opportunity to buy one.
There was supposed to be an end of August shipment .
So,now it's September. has anyone received an E-mail to buy from Oppo this past week?
I didn't. Stereo5, hear anything?

I received my e-mail from OPPO on 8/27. Not planning to purchase but I thought I would get in the system. I believe the purchase window closed on 8/30.

FYI, I received an email from Oppo on 8/30. It said one Oppo 205 unit was available tfor me to purchase and that the window to purchase closes 9/2 but no guarantees that they wouldnt run out of units before the end of 9/2. I did purchase one unit on 8/31 and received confirmation. I believe that I got on the list in late April.
Thanks for your responses. Guess I missed the cut again. There is supposedly a mid-September shipment coming. Maybe I'll get an invite then.
@stereo5 

Kinda ticks you off to hear that one guy didn't E-mail request one until the end of May and gets one yesterday, huh?
@bultaco...……………

It sure does.  I signed up the second week that you could do it and I am still waiting while others who ordered way after I did already got theirs.  If I do get a message from them, I may not bother answering them I am so angery.  I may just buy a Sony 
@stereo5 

If I told you what I wanted it for, I know what you would say "Go Esoteric"...You see, I am planning on using it as my only source for CD/SACD playback ( no vinyl) in a pretty expensive system (over 60k) . I just don't know how to hook up my hard drive to anything else, to see on my TV, was is playing. I have 11,000 albums on it...
My daughter has been on the list since April and no word from OPPO to her either yet.
Maybe they are all done?
@uberwaltz 

Maybe not...Oppo say's on their website there will be a mid-September shipment coming in.

@stereo5 

Would you E-mail me? I see from the GE site you have the same Esoteric I'm now considering. 
My new 205 just shipped on Friday. I was surprised to get an email from them asking if l was still interested.
Thanks for these updates. It's the only way to know what Oppo is up to.
Did they require a signature to deliver? 
@bultaco,

Standard shipping for me, no signature required but I believe I had a choice.
not sure what criteria they are using to chose who to offer to?
it almost seems some later applicants have been receiving offers of units.
of course always the possibility that the offer to my daughter went into spam and she just junked it without reading or seeing it.
@uberwaltz....................

i have been waiting as long and heard nothing.  I confirmed my email address with them May9 and have heard nothing since.  
@lancelock Would you please share when you confirmed your address to Oppo and when Oppo sent to email to you requesting payment?
@celander, I looked but I can’t seem to find the email indicating the date that I put my name on the waiting list. It’s been many months. Sorry, I know that’s no help.
@lancelock Yeah, I know. I had a hard time locating it myself. Had to search “Oppo” as a subject term in my Hotmail account to find it. 
I confirmed my E-mail address the same as stereo5; May 9.
Oppo does not seem to be using the first come, first served method. Their website indicates E-mails being sent out to requester's in "batches".
I corresponded with Oppo today.  I explained to them that some people that confirmed their email after 5/9 already received theirs.  They told me that Oppo used the date that people first signed up, not the date they confirmed email.  I was also told to watch my email as one will be coming soon for me.  So, who knows maybe I will get one.
Interesting...I tried to call them yesterday and the message I got was the phone was inoperable. 

"Coming soon"....Hmmmm. Well, they're website does say a shipment is coming in mid-September, so maybe we're on that list.

You know if people are confirming at the end of May, they likely didn't even put a request in until after May 9, I would think. I originally signed up towards the end of April.


@bultaco........................

i spoke with with them via email. I received a response within 3 hours. 
@stereo5 
Doesn't this all remind you a little of the T-Ref's a year ago?

I wrote SG a letter and got a pair. 
Yup, it sure does.  I don’t mind waiting until the end of this month.  If nothing by then, I will buy the top of the line Sony.  I have a 12 year old Sony player I paid $500 for from Best Buy.  It takes forever to load a Blu Ray disk, been like it from day one.  I have done all the firmware updates but it is really outdated.   I thought the Oppo would be a good follow up. 
Recommendation: To receive the invitation email from Oppo to purchase a unit and mitigate the risk of the invitation going to Spam please add the following email to your contacts/address book of your email provider, example Yahoo, Hotmail etc...

service@oppodigital.com
Email OPPO and had a reply within 30 minutes, although not really what I wanted to read but at least it was honest, see below.
"

Kevin,


We've received one shipment a little over a week ago and we're expecting our last shipment to arrive in the coming week. I've looked up your email address and there's over five thousand people ahead in the queue.  If that information is accurate, the player is not likely going to be available to you as there are so many ahead and we are not able to manufacture enough units for everyone in the queue.


Best Regards,

Customer Service
OPPO Digital, Inc.
162 Constitution Dr. Menlo Park, CA 94025
Service@oppodigital.com "
Now I have no idea how many units per shipment but not in the order of thousands so there are definitely going to be a few disapointed people out there

I joined and confirmed the udp-205 list June 24 and got the invitation to buy 2 days ago. It's on its way for a 9/11 delivery. So there is hope...
@uberwaltz, the Oppo reply might be a form letter. But if they already know their final product release count, the return rate of accepted invitations, and the outstanding wait list count, then they should be sending out emails to the late subscribers who would not likely get one. 
June 24th???
And you have one on the way???
I was in early May and heard nothing.
How can that be right?
If they are going by date request received as their reply intimidated.

Oh well.....
Is there a chance they sent you an invitation and it went to Spam? First thing I did when I applied for the UDP-203 interest list back in May was add Oppo’s email address to my address book. Doing this mitigates the email invitation to purchase from going to spam. 

Reading the posts here I honestly didn't think I was going to get an invitation. To my surprise I'm on vacation and I received an invitation.
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I do not think so.
Unless the email reply from OPPO was just auto which I doubt, it does not say I missed an invitation, rather that there are a lot of names ahead .
Just that seems at odds with your statement of June 24th confirmation.

Maybe it was auto, maybe they are wrong.
Not going to worry over it.

Good luck to those who do receive one!
@uberwaltz, you are correct. I registered and verified my email address on the same date (5/9). Here is their email reply from my query of last night:

”You registered your interest for the player in May, so based on your current queue it does not seem likely that you will be offered a player for purchase due to how many customers are ahead of you and how many units we actually have manufactured, but you can continue to wait patiently and wait for an E-mail to come to us possible at the end of the month.”
☝🏻☝🏻 Still could be an auto-reply. But I strongly doubt it. The gist of the message is the same as @uberwaltz reported.