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High End Universal Players ???

Looking for a quality built universal player for home movies as well as great 2 channel sound, looking for great audio as well as video quality. Getting confused with all the salesman guff.I currently am using a Marantz DV 12S2 which has served me well.
Amp - ML 336, Proceed BPA 3
Pre EAD Theatermaster Signature
Dynaudio 3.3 mains, JM Lab cobalt 800s rears and center speaker and Jm Lab sub Utopia 2
Thinking of perhaps a Esoteric,Bel Canto or ??? Any advise would be helpfull,cheers.
garyrb
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kennyt
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You didn't mention a price point, but the Esoterics are very nice, I used a DV-50s for several years and was very happy with it until I went to the new EMM Labs.
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jfrech
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garyrb: I've loved my esoteric dv50s. It's been one hec of a DVD player. The redbook and sacd are pretty good to. I'll likely upgrade it one day, but in the 4 years of so that i've owned it, it just keeps performing.

I have a pretty hi rez set up. I have zero complaints on this unit. The newer Esoteric's have DVD upsampling which supposedly closes the gap some on blu ray. Again, I don't feel like I am missing that much as is...great pic and sound.
tvad
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Esoteric players have transports built to last. The machines sound excellent, and Esoteric provides exceptionally good customer service.
buconero117
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oppo is the best science and value out there, why spend more.
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pdreher
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My experience with Oppo was poor.... problems with picture and sound within a few days of operation. Returned it and won't go back. Just my experience... YMMV.

On the other hand, I purchased a used Pioneer Elite DV-47A for a great price and it worked flawlessly for 5 years & many, many hours playing kids movies before it finally gave up the ghost.
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