Just a reminder that the player will be 2-channel only for SACD.
It’s not a pleasant topic, so I try to make it short… first and most annoying: the advertised nice feature of outputting a downsampled DSD layer from hybrid SACDs (still 24 bits/88,2 kHz vs. 16/44,1!) to any DAC (no matter what brand) doesn’t work with latest firmware. It was a reason for me to buy the DMP. Only if you use a PS Audio DAC, you will get the SACD layer. Otherwise, you just get a CD-Player right now. That can be worked around though, if you modify the Oppo drive’s settings (you have to know how to do this and you have to open the DMP). Since most DMP users are also using PS Audio DACs, PS Audio doesn’t care to fix this issue for users of third party DACs. Other issues are unreliable playback (a disc may not play at all or the display may indicate that it plays but you hear no sound or vice versa), unreliable selection/navigation of tracks, mixed up metadata display of discs played in succession (for example you played a disc by Neil Young first and then a disc containing some nice Mozart and the display still shows Neil Young as the artist while you are hearing classical music, a great party joke for free!), track/artist names display is quite coarse, diacritics/special characters are being displayed as boxes or question marks, etc., best to dim the display! Some people have reported the touch screen to be temporarily not responding, same for the remote (works fine on mine)… what else? While most of these issues can be worked around, usually by ejecting the disc and reinserting it or, if that doesn’t help, by power cycling the DMP and you may get used to that… but come on, the original price was around 6 k… you should not have to fiddle around like that…Some firmware updates have been released, but progress was extremely slow and never truly successful (some bugs fixed, others not, new bugs introduced, etc.) The last firmware update is from July 2019. A statement from PS Audio about what the plans are for future updates to fix the DMP issues would be in order, I think. Because like it is (and has been over it’s whole live cycle), it’s just an interim solution, not a satisfactory, lasting product, despite it’s very good sound quality. What you have, is just kind of a beta version of what could be a truly fantastic product.