Another accolade: having owned a BDP-2 for a few months now, I have to say I am mightily impressed by it. By way of background, I was and still am a CD afficionado. Having played with streaming and not finding anything remotely charming about hooking up my hifi (Bryston / Accuphase / B&W / Siltech) to a network, I initially thought of adding a mac mini running audirvana, but months of testing DACs, I couldn't make it sound as good as I wanted - certainly not as good as my upmarket CD player. Then came the BDP-2, which, running into an accuphase DAC-30, sounds indistinguishable from CD on redbook and gorgeous in high res, and best of all, runs from USB sticks without any fuss. I prefer to run it in bare-bones mode from the front panel.
A note on power errors at start-up: mine suffered from it until I reversed phase at the wall outlet. Not a single incident since. And on the firmware: V.1.73 runs fine but for some reason 1.6 is more reliable in reading memory sticks as they are plugged in...
Cheers,
EJ